Friday, 12:32, 20/10/2023

Hard-working female workers having no Women’s Day

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VOV.VN - While men take their wives or partners out for parties on Vietnamese Women’s Day (October 20), women in the following pictures are still working hard on streets, even throughout the night, to earn a living.
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For Nguyen Thi Nu, 90, of Ha Dong district, Vietnamese Women’s Day is just like a normal day. Each day she opens her store from 4 p.m. till midnight, hoping to sell dozen eggs, a few bunches of vegetables, and bananas.
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Selling these items is her main source of income.
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An elderly street vendor recalls that during both cold and hot weather she must still carry on working to earn a living. Even skipping work for just one day would severely reduce her income.
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This woman says she continues working at night to earn extra money for her family’s meals.
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The future of her children heavily relies on her work, she shares.
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The woman collects and then sells several things from rubbish, such as plastic bottles and scraps of paper, hoping to earn every penny for her family.
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It is not difficult to spot people in environmental sanitation clothes working in Hanoi late at night.
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Just as in normal days, this worker’ shift begins from 3 p.m. and lasts through to 1 a.m.
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The worker says her children are the main source of encouragement to motivate her to work hard.
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With Vietnamese Women’s Day falling on October 20, the date seems to have no special meaning for any of these women.
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