The weather has been much more favorable this year than in previous years. Although it was late October, sunny and warm days were still lingering. Taking advantage of calm seas, fishermen in coastal communes such as the former Phu Dien, Vinh Thanh, and Vinh Xuan communes, now part of Phu Vinh Commune, have been heading out to sea to catch seafood and earn extra income. Although the catch is not as abundant as during the main fishing season, the ‘bounty of the sea’ is still enough to provide them with hearty meals.

As part of the 2026 National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction, the Hue City Center for Disease Control (Hue CDC) is distributing nutritional products to commune health stations. The effort aims to improve the health and nutritional status of malnourished children aged 5 to 16 in disadvantaged communes.

On the morning of October 1st, wards, communes and educational institutions across Hue City launched Lifelong Learning Week 2026 under the theme ‘Learning for Real, Practising for Real, Mastering Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence to Build a Learning Society and Promote Lifelong Learning’.

On September 30th, the Center for Social Research and Development (CSRD) held a workshop titled ‘Sharing Research Findings and Community Consultation on Aquatic Biodiversity and a Proposal for an Aquatic Resource Conservation Area in A Sap River’ in A Luoi communes.

These days, as the rice fields reach full ripeness, farmers in the communes of A Luoi are busy with the harvest, working to bring the rice home before the rainy and stormy season arrives.

From August 26 to September 15, the city’s health sector is rolling out the first high-dose Vitamin A supplementation campaign of 2026 for children aged 6 to under 60 months in ethnic minority and mountainous communes. The campaign aims to provide children with essential micronutrients and help reduce malnutrition rates in these areas.

On the morning of September 5th, joining the nationwide back-to-school atmosphere, Hue City People’s Committee held the opening ceremony for the 2026–2027 academic year and inaugurated inter-level boarding schools in land-border communes.

Breaking ground in October and November 2025, the multi-level primary and secondary boarding schools in A Luoi 3 and A Luoi 4 communes are scheduled to be inaugurated and put into use for the 2026-2027 school year.

In preparation for the 2026 - 2027 academic year, two inter-level boarding schools in A Luoi 3 and A Luoi 4 communes are urgently completing the final preparations to welcome students back to school starting August 25.

On the morning of August 17, in Khe Tre Commune, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Association of the Elderly, the Thien Tam Fund (Vingroup), and the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance, in coordination with Saigon Eye Hospital - Song Han, held a humanitarian eye-screening program for ethnic minority people in the two mountainous communes of Khe Tre and Long Quang.