(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.
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