In recent years, Women’s Union chapters in Hoa Binh province have paid attention to creating jobs and supporting women to start their businesses, especially for poor women and those in remote and ethnic minority areas.
The Women's Union of Quynh Lam ward (Hoa Binh city) hands over a
breeding buffalo to Bach Thi Nu, a member with financial difficulty.
Pham Thi Phuong, President of Hoa Binh City Women's Union, said
that supporting women to start their businesses and develop household
production is a key solution to help them secure livelihoods in line with
Project 939 on supporting women startups in the 2017-2025 period of the city's
Women's Union.
To effectively implement the project, since the beginning of this year, the
city Women’s Union has reviewed the number of women who wanted to start their
own business, especially poor, near-poor, and disadvantaged households, and
helped them access financial resources managed by the union to carry out
business ideas and escape poverty sustainably.
In 2023, the city Women's Union sent 31 members to participate in
entrepreneurship training classes organised by the Central Committee of the
Vietnam Women’s Union, the province's Women’s Union and other agencies. The
classes were designed to improving poverty reduction capacity for Women's Union
activists at the communal level and those engaged in poverty alleviation work
and start-up training.
In particular, Hoa Binh Women’s Union chapters maintain models of cooperative
and affiliated groups that have actively supported households in selling
agricultural products worth over 304 million VND (12,540 USD). Thanks to the
groups' activities, women’s income has been improved.
Implementing a plan on coordination to provide vocational
training for rural workers, the city Women's Union has collaborated with the
city Centre for Continuing Education and Vocational Training and the Community
Learning Centre to open 23 vocational training classes for 440 members, Phuong
said. As a result, 100% of learners were granted vocational certificates and
145 members got jobs with salaries ranging from 3 million VND to 7 million VND.
It also coordinated with relevant agencies to organise a job consultation fair
for 356 people, including 196 women.
Women’s Union chapters in Hoa Binh have promoted entrusted activities with
banks and credit institutions to help households escape poverty, she said.
A workshop on promoting the role of reputable individuals and religious dignitaries in popularising and promoting gender equality in ethnic minorities and mountainous areas was held by the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) in Hoa Binh province on July 16.
Hoa Binh province has 145 out of the 151 communes, wards, and towns which are ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas, 506 communes facing extreme difficulties, and more than 74% of its population being ethnic minority people.
Creating on-site jobs for rural women lies in the heart of the operation of the Women's Union of Lac Thinh commune in Yen Thuy district. Bui Thi Tien, 44, of the Muong ethnic group, a member of the women's union of Sau hamlet in Lac Thinh commune, has boldly sought and created jobs for many women to increase their income and improve their families' living standards.
Defining socio-economic development and effective implementation of policies on ethnic affairs in the locality has been a continuous and crucial task during 2019-2024 period, the Party Committee and People's Committee of Cao Phong district have focused on leadership in executing these tasks, achieving positive results. The material and spiritual lives of people in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas have gradually improved while rural area has gained a face-lift.
Hoa Binh’s education and training sector is implementing concerted measures to better the quality of education and training, proactively implementing the national target programme on new rural area building.
Family is the home of each person and the cell of a society. It also plays a significant role in the formation and development of each person’s personality. On May 4, 2001, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 72/2001/QD-TTg, designating June 28 as the Vietnamese Family Day. Over the past years, Hoa Binh province has carried out a number of activities to honour the family traditions and help develop prosperous, progressive, equal, happy "cells of society”.
