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title: 'Youth League Social Work: Repairing a Road'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/youth-league-social-work-repairing-a-road-1965-1969/
description: Page 3 of a Vietnamese-language ochre-panelled sheet shows young men and women repairing a road with hoes, a wheelbarrow and shoulder-pole baskets.
section: Collection
---

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# Youth League Social Work: Repairing a Road

Page 3 of a Vietnamese-language ochre-panelled sheet shows young men and women repairing a road with hoes, a wheelbarrow and shoulder-pole baskets, captioned as students helping to repair a road near Nha Trang, and a second photograph of young people handling timber, captioned that building houses needs a great deal of wood. A large headline is cut off at the left edge. The tell is the display of voluntary youth labour in a single favourable light, with ordinary working scenes standing for a programme.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[…]ÁC XÃ HỘI

Những sinh viên này giúp sửa chữa một con đường gần Nha Trang.

Việc cất nhà cửa cần rất nhiều gỗ.

3
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[...]ÁC XÃ HỘI [probably 'social work', from the NARA title]

These students help repair a road near Nha Trang.

Building houses requires a great deal of timber.

3
```

Headline cut off at left edge; only the visible letters are transcribed.

[← Youth League Social Work: Students Train Highlanders Coming of Age Who are Becoming Social Workers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/youth-league-social-work-highlanders-1965-1969/) [Youth Social Work Group: Dalat University Students →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/youth-social-work-group-dalat-students-1965-1969/)

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