(HBO) - The branch of the Bank for Social Policy in Mai Chau district reported that in the first eight months of 2021, it provided loans worth over 107 billion VND to 3,082 customers in the district. Since the beginning of the year, loans under social policies have been promptly provided to poor households and other eligible customers in 16 communes and towns in the district. Communes with high lending turnover are Tan Thanh (14.8 billion VND), Son Thuy (nearly 12 billion VND), Bao La (11.5 billion VND).


 In the first eight months of the year, credit for clean water and environmental sanitation recorded high growth in Mai Chau district. Photo taken in Tong hamlet, Tong Dau commune.

In the period, the bank's Mai Chau branch implemented 9 credit programmes, focusing on those with high demands from locals such as loans for families in difficult areas to start business or production  (40.7 billion VND), families under the poverty line (16.6 billion VND), families just above the poverty line (18.9 billion VND), clean water and environmental sanitation (17.4 billion VND). Up to now, the total outstanding loans in the district have reached 312.3 billion VND with 9,866 customers. Through social policy credit programmes, 290 labourers have found jobs and over 18,000 clean water and sanitation projects have been built./.


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