Supporting the members to start their businesses and develop economy effectively

The Women''s Union of Kim Boi district:

Supporting the members to start their businesses and develop economy effectively

8/14/2019 - 9:02:40 AM

(HBO) - Ms. Nguyen Thi Khuong, the Chairwoman of the Women's Union in the district says that the program coordinated between the district’s Union and the Center of Culture, Information and Sports held the village fair - sharing the typical examples in the field of economic development associated with the traditional costume performance, which is a highlight of the supporting activities for women to start-up and develop economy in the first 6 months of this year.

The organic vegetable products of members of the Women’s Union in Lam Trong village, Nua Dam commune (Kim Boi) have traceability stamps, ensuring the standards, being trusted by consumers.

Ms. Nguyen Trom the above highlight activities, together with the support of the project "Strengthening the self-help capacity for the ethnic minority communities in Kim Boi district" and the Center for Support and Development of Women and Children, the Coordinating Board of Kim Boi Supervising Office has organized a training course for inspectors for 40 delegates of interest groups of 4 communes, Tuc Dam, End Ha, Vinh Tien and Binh Son. They have organized 2 training courses on the knowledge of the production of the organic vegetable and chicken production for people from 4 communes, who benefit from the project. They have also organized 2 training classes instructing how to make stamps for traceability and have established 4 groups of organic vegetable production, 2 groups of safe chicken raising and 2 groups of natural beekeeping.

Currently, these groups have gone into the stable production and have a stable output. In addition, the Union has cooperated with Hung Nhu Co., Ltd. to open an electronic assembly workshop at the People's Committee of Ving Dong commune and Bai hamlet, Kim Son commune, creating jobs for 105 female members in the two communes.

The movement helping the poor women has been paid attention by the Union. Right from the beginning of the year, after reviewing the poor households in communes and town, the Union reviewed and analyzed the causes of poverty to develop a plan to help the poor members. The Union has cooperated with other mass organizations to direct the grassroots association to help the poor members in various forms such as effectively maintaining the savings funds, taking advantage of the support resources from the programs and livelihood projects and so on.

In order to help women with capital for production, the Union’s facilities have maintained a movement to help each other develop the family economy and at the same time exploit and well manage the bank loans well. Currently, the total outstanding loans of Social Policy Bank has reached over 129 billion VND with 119 savings and credit groups with about 4,851 turns of borrowing households; the total outstanding loans of the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development is 11.5 billion VND with 2 groups, 100 borrowing members to develop the family economy. They have newly established 7 circular groups of wards (raising the total to 63 groups / 895 members of the whole Union).

In the first 6 months of 2019, 210 million VND has been saved to help 65 members build the hygienic latrines. The borrowing groups has been well promoting the role of managing the entrusted capital. The households borrowing capital have used the money for the right purpose to develop production, business, cultivation and husbandry, which has brought the economic efficiency, increased income and improved the lives of the members. Many members can earn between 100-200 million VND a year.

Giving money to support the creative start-up idea for Dao Village Agricultural Cooperative

(HBO) - The Hoa Binh Women's Union presented the money to support the idea of winning the "Women and the future of green economy" creative contest for Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, Director of Dao Village Cooperative in Thong Nhat commune (Hoa Binh City) with a model of growing and processing citronella essential oil along the value chain to provide safe products for users, environmentally friendly.” This is one of the three ideas of Hoa Binh women that won the prize at the competition.

Long Son mountain goat meat meets VietGAP standard

(HBO) - With mountainous and rocky terrain, many communes in Luong Son district have favourable conditions to raise goats following the concentrated farming method. The local herd of goats is estimated to have about 8,000 heads, accounting for 15.7 percent of Hoa Binh’s. This year, the district has successfully built its ‘Luong Son mountain goat’ collective brand.

over 819 billion VND of public investment disbursed

(HBO) - According to reports from the provincial People’s Committee, Hoa Binh’s plan for investment capital sourced by the State budget in 2019 is worth over 2.47 trillion VND. Of the sum, 2.445 trillion VND has been allocated to specific projects.

Mai Chau district supports women-led startups

(HBO) - In seven months of 2019, the Women’s Union of Mai Chau district carried out a series of activities to assist its members in starting their businesses.

Yen Bong commune develops hill chicken raising

(HBO) - Promoting the local potentials and strengths in the agricultural production, Yen Bong commune (Lac Thuy) has strongly developed the model of raising hill chickens in the form of semi-grazing in combination with agriculture and forestry in recent years. The local hill chicken products are of high quality with delicious taste, and are popular in the market, thereby creating a significant source of income for the local people.

Hoa Binh launches campaign on building new-style rural areas

(HBO) – The trade union of the northwestern province of Hoa Binh has launched a campaign to donate 1,000 tonnes of cement for the national target programme on building new-style rural areas.

The Women''s Union of Kim Boi district: