March 28, 2024
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Middle school graduates volunteer as weavers

Date: 05/12/2021 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

Om Yong Gum (left), Choe Son Gyong (second from left) and Ri Chang Sil (right) who volunteered to work at the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill have an apprenticeship with the help of a skilled worker.

Over a dozen girls have volunteered to work at the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill this year.

They are all senior middle school graduates who received certificates of volunteer before citizenship cards.

They have different native villages and dreams, but they have met at the mill, because they have one fervent desire in mind.

“The country provided us with new uniforms every year, ‘Sonamu’-brand satchels and other conditions for study free from worry. It is natural for us to repay the favour and love shown by it,” they say.

Of them, three girls including Om Yong Gum, who volunteered to work at the mill after graduating from Taechon Senior Middle School in Ryongsong District, Pyongyang, applied for weavers at the general weaving workshop.

So they are now serving an apprenticeship as weavers at the workshop.

“It is an intrinsic nature of humans to try to repay the love shown for them. My mother would always see me off with pleasure when I went to school wearing the new uniform provided by the country,” said Yong Gum, when asked why she wanted to become a weaver.

Her mother began to suffer from a heart disease when she was three and gradually became unable to move around, she said.

Though it was not because her lack of mind but the serious illness, she usually felt sorry for her daughter.

So whenever Yong Gum returned home and tried to attend to her, she didn’t allow her daughter to do so.

Before graduation, she told her mother that she wanted to become a weaver who makes cloth for school uniforms at the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill. She hugged her daughter and fully supported her decision, saying: “I’ve not made a new suit of clothes for you with my own hands, but the country has brought you up well.”

According to Ri Kum Byol, a skilled worker at the workshop, the girl volunteers play their part though it is only a few months since they got their jobs.

“We are just beginners, but we were honoured to attend the Youth Day celebrations and have a photo taken with the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un in August. We are determined to repay the love by weaving more cloths,” said Yong Gum.

The girl volunteers to the mill are unanimous in their resolve.

“The general weaving workshop has produced nine Labour Heroes. Mun Kang Sun and Ri Myong Sun, labour innovators well-known throughout the country, are also weavers of the general weaving workshop. We’ve made up our mind to live and work like them,” said Choe Son Gyong, a weaver at weaving workshop No. 4.

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