(HBO) – Loans from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies’ branch in Mai Chau district have contributed to supporting local poor people and policy beneficiaries to overcome difficulties in the context of the complicated developments of the COVID-19.


 Mr. Ha Cong Sinh’s family in Bang village, Bao La commune of Mai Chau district, has got out of poverty thanks to using social policy loans in breeding cows.

Over recent years, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP)’s branch in Mai Chau district has worked hard in mobilising capital to promptly meet the credit demand of local people, thus helping thousands of households create sustainable livelihoods.

Mrs. Dinh Thi Dua’s family in Bang hamlet, Bao La commune, was previously a poor household and met economic difficulties because they had no capital for production. Her family has escaped from poverty thanks to effectively using social policy loans in raising buffaloes.

Mr. Ha Cong Sinh's household in the same hamlet also got a loan of 42 million VND to develop cow husbandry, thanks to which his family’s economy has gradually stabilised.

Directorof the transaction office of theVBSP in Mai Chau district Vu Hoai Nam said despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the bank well performed tasks and plans set in 2021, with loans provided quickly to those who needed.

The bank lent 122 billion VND to about 3,400 poor and near-poor households and other policy beneficiaries, helping them promote economic development and construct clean water and environmental sanitation works.

In the first two months of this year, the policy credit loans topped 16 billion VND. The total outstanding loans of credit programmes stood at over 321 billion VND, up 6.8 billion VND compared to the beginning of the year.

Nam said his agency will focus on lending growth credit sources; and classifying debts to assess credit quality in the locality in order to have solutions to irrecoverable debts.

Attention will be also paid to effectively performing the interest rate support policy to assist people affectedbythe COVID-19pandemic, he added./.


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