(HBO) – Over the past years, the northern province of Hoa Binh has effectively carried out the credit programme on clean water and environmental sanitation, contributing to improving local people’s living standards and rural environmental sanitation, and giving a facelift to rural areas.
Thanks to concessional loans from the Vietnam
Bank for Social Policies (VBSP), Ha Thi Kieu’s family in Cha hamlet, Tong Dau
commune, Mai Chau district, built a system of clean water and sanitation,
helping raise their living standards.
Vu Dinh Hoai, Director of the VBSP’s Hoa Binh
branch, said at the end of July, the province had 6,836 customers who took
loans worth more than 79.2 billion VND from the bank, increasing the total
outstanding balance to 389.9 billion VND owed by 35,709 households. Most of the
households have used the loans for right purposes.
Since the beginning of this year, the
households have built 6,863 clean water facilities and 6,836 sanitation
facilities such as water containers and filters, drilled wells, bathrooms and
toilets.
Thanks to such efforts, the rural environment
has been improved significantly, contributing to completing the environmental
criterion of new-style area building in hamlets and communes in the province.
The VBSP will continue to closely coordinate
with organisations and associations in localities to popularise credit policies
on clean water and rural environmental sanitation, creating conditions for
rural residents to approach preferential loans to build clean water and
sanitation facilities. At the same time, the bank will step up efforts to
collect debts and interest rates as scheduled to help other households access
loans.
Thanks to integrated loans, localities in the
province built hundreds of centralised clean water facilities. Up to 90 percent
of rural residents get access to clean water and over 70 percent of rural
households have hygienic toilets. Meanwhile, more than 60 percent of breeding
facilities meet sanitation requirements.
At the end of 2017, 79 out of the 191
communes in the province fulfilled the environment-related criterion in
new-style rural area building.
A seminar on promoting the startup movement among high school students has been held recently by the provincial Department of Education and Training and the Vietnam National University of Agriculture at Tan Lac High School in Tan Lac district of Hoa Binh province.
In the morning of April 24th, at Uncle Ho’s Monument on Hoa Binh Hydroelectric Project, Vietnam Youth Federation coordinated with Hoa Binh Youth Federation to organize the journey "I love my Fatherland” to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory.
From the fact that the market takes place only every Tuesday, Bo market in Van Son commune (Tan Lac) officially takes place every Sunday from March 24. Thereby, the aim is to turn the market into a place promoting the cultural identity of Muong people in Hoa Binh and the consumption of goods and products of the neighboring communes, meeting the needs of tourists for the local products when travelling to Van Son at weekends.
Nguyen Van Toan, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, chaired a meeting of the Steering Committee on Population and Development.
Hoa Binh province’s Department of Education and Training on April 16 held a conference on the materialisation of the Prime Minister’s directive on the further implementation of the project on the application of population database, e-identification and e-authentication for national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period with a vision to 2030. The provincial Department of Education and Training signs cooperation agreements on cashless tuition fee collection with partners and businesses.
