(HBO) - Aide et Action Vietnam, in collaboration with the Northwest Cooperation and Development Centre (NWD) and local partners, on March 14 organised a workshop to share outcomes and experience drawn from the project "Increasing access to livelihood opportunities for ethnic minority young people through the promotion of career development entrepreneurship initiatives", which is funded by the European Union.
Participants look at products by students and young people who took part in the project’s vocational training programmes.
The project has been carried out in Hoa Binh and Lao Cai provinces for three years, from 2020 to 2023. It aims to support ethnic minority young people (aged 16-30) to improve their incomes through promoting career development and start-up initiatives.
The project's activities cover career orientation, vocational training and starting business for ethnic minority young people. Accordingly, over 3,400 students at high schools and continuing education centres receive guidance through career orientation lessons and job fairs after three years of implementation.
It facilitates access to livelihood opportunities through vocational training classes and business connection activities for more than 1,200 ethnic minority young people as well as supports the development of business ideas and training to improve business management skills for more than 110 young entrepreneurs.
This year, the project continues to encourage sustainable job creation; training to enhance capacity for teachers and students as well as linkage with businesses to help young people start business and connect with business networks to expand their business models.
Participants at the workshop discussed several topics including evaluating the project's activities and proposing the coordination plan for the next phase; sharing the outcomes and solutions to effectively deploy operations this year./.
(HBO) – In the 2021-2023 period, Lac Thuy district has received 24.42 billon VND (1.04 million USD) from the national target programme on promoting socio-economic development in the mountainous and minority-inhabited areas, including 13.58 billion VND of development investment capital.
(HBO) – Over the past time, many manufacturing businesses have moved to rural areas of the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh to seek labourers. As a result, several projects have proved highly effective, helping create jobs and transform economic structure in many areas of the province.
(HBO) – As Hoa Binh suffers from a shortage of teachers for all educational levels, 50 teachers in Mai Chau district, Hoa Binh province, had to teach classes in several different schools in 2022. Lai Thi Minh Hue is a biology teacher at the Mai Chau township Junior High School, but from Monday to Thursday every week, she travelled 30km to teach at the Noong Luong Boarding Primary and Junior High School for Ethnic Minority Students in Thanh Son commune.
(HBO) - At this time, together with other localities in the province, Luong Son district has been organizing many specific and practical activities to respond to the action month for the food safety.
(HBO) – A conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the Great National Solidarity Day has been held in Hoa Binh city by the Hoa Binh’s Standing Board of the Fatherland Front Committee.
(HBO) - In harmony with the exciting emulation spirit of the youth throughout the whole province and the whole country, the Youth Union at all levels of Lac Son district has upheld the spirit of enthusiasm, volunteerism and creativity of the youth, carrying out many practical and meaningful activities for the community, joining hands to ensure the social security in the locality.