(HBO) – Lac Son district is striving to reduce its rate of poor households to 20.05 percent by the end of 2022. The rate at the end of 2021 was 24.13 percent.
A staff at the Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs section of Quyet Thang commune in Lac Son presents health insurance cards to poor people.
Bui Van Duong, Vice Chairman of the Lac Son People’s Committee, said the implementation of work to realise the goal was approved in December last year, with the committee issuing a related plan in March 2022.
In the early months of this year, 8,387 poor households received Tet gifts, while the district’s chapter of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies provided support and loan settlement worth nearly 16.2 billion VND (698,879 USD) for 255 poor, 162 near-poor families, as well as 23 households who had freshly escaped poverty.
Lac Son has made efforts to boost vocational training for rural labourers. Within March, six classes on husbandry, repair and operation of agricultural machines, and industrial sewing were opened in the local communes of Yen Phu, Huong Nhuong, Tan Lap, Quyet Thang, and Vu Ban township.
Toward the 2022 goal, the district is pressing ahead with a series of tasks, including investing in socio-economic growth in poor locations;,diversifying livelihoods and developing poverty reduction models, and beefing up production and vocational training.
Organising communications campaigns and mobilising social resources are also considered key activities in the time to come./.
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.
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.
