(HBO) – Hoa Binh province has carried out many governmental support policies for the poor in an effective, timely manner to foster sustainable poverty reduction. These policies have contributed to developing local production, improving people’s income, particularly the poor and people from ethnic minority groups.
People in the mountainous
commune of Quyet Chien, Tan Lac district have access to clean water from a
project funded by Programme 135.
The total fund
for the implementation of the national target programme for sustainable poverty
reduction in Hoa Binh exceeds 1.185 trillion VND from 2016 – 2020.
Over 3.1 trillion
VND has been provided in soft
loans for the poor and near-poor households; people going to work abroad as
guest workers; and those in disadvantaged areas; or to develop household
businesses, forest farming and husbandry; construct clean water supply and
rural environmental sanitation projects; and create jobs.
Over the last
five years, all poor and near-poor households, ethnic minority people living in
disadvantaged and extremely disadvantaged areas have been covered with free
health insurance while students from extremely disadvantaged villages and
communes have received financial aid to cover tuition fees and expenditure.
Thanks to such
effort, the province’s poverty rate fell by 3.09 percent annually in average
from 2016 – 2020. At the same time, average income of the poor and near-poor
households increased from 44.58 million VND per year in 2016 to 55.1 million
VND per year in 2019.
Over 80 percent
of the communal main roads have been concreted; 80 percent of commune-based
medical stations now have sufficient facilities to delivery healthcare services
covered by health insurance and 75 percent of local households have access to
clean water./.
In recent years, the preferential loans from the Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) have been contributing to creating jobs for many employees in the province. This source of capital has helped many households invest in economic restructuring, increasing income, and reducing the sustainable poverty.
In the morning of May 9th, the Provincial Women's Union held a conference to summarize the Project "Empowering women’s rights through the access to the Law on Cyber Security, Marriage and Family Law”.
Ms. Bui Thi Dinh, the President of the Women's Union of Dinh Cu commune (Lac Son) says: Dinh Cu is a particularly difficult commune of the district, Muong ethnic group accounts for 90%. When being selected to participate in the project "Empowering women’s right through the access to the Law on Cyber Security and Law on Marriage and Family”, especially establishing the model "Equality in marriage” in Muong Chong hamlet with the participation of 30 members, along with propaganda and dissemination work on gender, the Law on Marriage and Family, and the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence has helped raise the awareness and qualifications for the officials and women members.
The club model "Women integrating in the online environment" is one of the two basic models of a project on empowering women through access to the Law on Cyber Security, and the Marriage and Family Law, sponsored by the Justice Initiatives Facilitation Fund (JIFF) - EU Justice and Legal Empowerment Programme (EU JULE).
In recent years, Thung Nai commune on has undergone significant changes in its appearance, landscape, and lives of local residents. Road 435 from Hoa Binh City to Tan Lac district’s Suoi Hoa commune, passing through the Thung Nai commune, has helped attract many tourists to the area.
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.
