(HBO) – Bui Thi Thiep, a resident in Chieng hamlet of Vinh Dong commune, Kim Boi district, has been recognised as a prestigious person in the local community since 2014. She has encouraged locals to shift their crop and livestock farming structures, thus helping many families improve their income.
Bui
Thi Thiep (first, left), a prestigious person in Chieng hamlet of Vinh Dong
commune (Kim Boi district), encourages local residents to donate land to expand
roads.
Bui Thi Chinh, another prestigious individual in
Suoi Con hamlet of Kim Boi commune, has persuaded local residents to donate
1.8ha of land to build a reservoir serving agricultural production and a house
for community activities, along with 890 sq.m of land to build roads. She has
also encouraged low-income families to mobilise more financial support from Programme
135 and other policies targeting ethnic minorities to buy breeding buffaloes
and cows.
Meanwhile, Bui Trong Khuyen, a resident in Bo Bo
hamlet of Thuong Bi commune, has persuaded others to donate 1,000 sq.m of land
to build a secondary school, another 5,000 sq.m to expand roads, and 33 million
VND (1,400 USD) to construct a community house. He has also actively taken part
in reconciliation activities.
Prestigious persons in local ethnic minority
communities are the role models in the patriotic emulation movements. They have
taken the lead in participating in campaigns, especially encouraging other
people to implement programmes, projects and policies of the Party and State,
and develop independent livelihoods to raise their income, thereby helping the
locality meet the criteria of the national target programme on sustainable
poverty reduction and the new-style rural area building programme.
There are 187 prestigious individuals in 195
hamlets across Kim Boi district at present. In 2017, Bui Thi Thiep was granted
with a certificate of merit by the Prime Minister at the first national
ceremony honouring exemplary prestigious persons, intellectuals and
entrepreneurs from ethnic minorities./.
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