The number of poor households dropped to 38,300, making up 11.85% of the total households in the province, down 3.4% compared to 2016. More than 5,000 Khmer families were supported to get out of poverty, reducing the ratio of poor Khmer households to 17.95%. Head of the provincial department for ethnic affairs Ly Binh Cang attributed the outcomes to the Party and State’s support policies in building infrastructure, funding, transferring technology, and providing know-know in cultivation, animal husbandry, and family economic development.He noted that the local socio-economic development has been recovered after serious losses caused by saltwater intrusion in 2016.In 2017, the province recorded growth in aquatic outputs, production values, and exports. Local authorities paid much attention to reducing poverty, building new rural areas, and implementing ethnic affairs policies.The Government’s Programme 135, which was launched in 1999 with the aim of improving living conditions for rural residents with a particular focus on ethnic minority communes, provided nearly VND60 billion (US$2.6 million) to build infrastructure such as roads, irrigations and community houses in disadvantaged areas. In addition, the province made effective use of funds worth over VND100 billion (US$4.4 million) to support tens of thousands of households, mainly from the Khmer ethnic group, with accommodation and cultivation land, job change, electricity, and water.
The family of Thach Son, a farmer in Vinh Hau commune, Hoa Binh district has just been helped to build a new house. The poor couple with three children used to live in a dilapidated house. “Now, we do not have to worry about our house any more, especially when it rains, and we just concentrate in production now”, Thach Son said happily. The couple of Thach Thi Ry in Vinh Hau commune with six children are currently living in a new house built with financial support from the State and local residents. “Without the help of the State and…... [read more]
4,556 poor households, including nearly two thousand Khmer ones in the southern province of Bac Lieu have been provided with electricity for daily life and production over the last year. The province will make every efforts to provide electricity for 80% of poor households by the year 2005. Tapping the same capital source, Bac Lieu has so far spent nearly VND 110 billion on electrification in twenty communes. As a result, 78% households are accessible to electricity grid, 70% of which are in rural areas. These families have also received loans from a poverty project without having to pay interests…... [read more]
Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Le Ba Trinh presents Tet gifts to the needy in Thua Thien-Hue province (Photo: VNA)ThuaThien– Hue, (VNA) – The central province of ThuaThien – Hue has so farsupported 14,000 needy households in accessing preferential loans from theVietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) in 2017.NguyenVan Nghia, residing near Tam Giang lagoon in QuangLoi commune, QuangDiendistrict, is a prime example of poor people escaping poverty thanks topreferential loans. Nghia’s family had been living under the poverty line formany years. Local authorities assist them to borrow 30 million VND (1,324 USD)from the VBSP to start duck…... [read more]
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs organized a press briefing in Hanoi on October 11 to mark Day for the Poor (October 17). Pham Ngoc Tien, who is in charge of coordinating the National Poverty Reduction Programme for the 2006-2010 period, announced that more than 300,000 households are expected to escape poverty by the end of this year, with the rate of poor households slashed to about 15.15 percent. In 2006 and 2007, nearly three million poor households received preferential credit from "social policy" banks, 15,000 training courses were held to transfer techniques to poor people, and nearly…... [read more]
Hanoi's Social Policies Bank director Nguyen Kim Phung spoke with Thoi bao Ngan hang (Banking Times) newspaper about the impact of preferential loans for social welfare beneficiaries and the poor. * Can you review what the bank has achieved in helping social welfare beneficiaries and the poor during the past decade? The bank has covered 559 out of the city's total 577 communes and wards over the past 11 years. Preferential loans have been provided to nearly 1 million low-income households and beneficiaries of social welfare, including 575,000 poor households. Loans have helped over 150,000 households escape from poverty, created…... [read more]
