Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Tran Anh Dung said the programme aims to contribute to the province’s sustainable poverty reduction goal, adding that local authorities strive to give land to all needy families by 2020.

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Last year, the provincial People’s Committee promulgated an action plan to improve the quality of human resources and generate jobs for locals as well as mobilize financial resources to reduce poverty in disadvantaged communes, especially those inhabited by Khmer ethnic people.

The Branch of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies in Tra Vinh offered loans worth nearly 760 billion VND (32.8 million USD) for over 45,000 households to develop production.

Implementing the project supporting socio-economic development in ethnic minority regions in 2017-2020, Tra Vinh has disbursed over 23 billion VND in loans to support 715 people to change jobs.

The province also backed the provision of 515,000 health insurance cards for poor locals and supported over 1,400 students with rice and tuitions.

In 2018, the ratio of poor households in the province dropped by 2.46 percent.

Nearly 6.7 million poor households get preferential loans in 2018

Close to 6.7 million poor households and policy beneficiaries gained access to preferential loans worth over 62 trillion VND (2.66 billion USD) in 2018.

 

Poor people to receive chung cake ahead of Tet

A programme to make Chung cake (square, glutinous rice cake) for disadvantaged communities will take place at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism from January 24-26, said the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (MCST) on January 14.

 

Activities held to bring warm Tet to policy beneficiaries, the poor

Many activities have been organized nationwide to support disadvantaged people and policy beneficiaries on the threshold of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays which fall in early February.

 

HCM City brings warm Tet to policy beneficiaries, poor people

The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City plans to spend some 800 billion VND (34.5 million USD) on gifts to policy beneficiaries and impoverished households in the city as the Lunar New Year (Tet) 2019 nears.

 

Helping the poor enjoy happy Tet holiday

(BGO) - Through the mobilization of the Fatherland Front Committees at all levels in Bac Giang province, many agencies, units, businesses and benefactors have joined hands to support the construction of hundreds of houses and prepare tens of thousands of gifts for poor households with especially difficult circumstances in order to help them have a warm and happy Tet holiday.

 

Source: VNA