(HBO) - In recent years, with many practical programmes, Vietnam Bank for Social Policies’ transaction office in Lac Son district (Hoa Binh province) has improved the quality of entrustment activity, making it easier for local people to get access to preferential credits, thus timely helping poor and disadvantaged households develop production and improve their living standards, and promoting sustainable poverty reduction in the locality.
Soft loans have helped local residents to implement the national target programme on hunger eradication and poverty reduction, and stablise the political and social situation in Tan Lap commune.
With preferential loans from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, Mr.
Bui Quoc Trong, Tom 3 hamlet, Tan Lap commune (Lac Son district) has invested
in producing wooden furniture.
At present, Tan Lap commune is
implementing eight policy credit programmes with outstanding loans worth over 24.4
billion VND. Of which, outstanding loans for poor households account for the largest
amount, reaching over 8.4 billion VND, while loans for near-poor households as
well as business and production projects reached over 5.5 billion VND and 2.3
billion VND, respectively.
The commune has 33 groups of savings and
loans with 1,273 borrowers and savings reaching 464 million VND. To effectively
use the preferential loans, the bank office’s staff closely coordinated with those
working in associations and organisations receiving credit entrustment to call
on the groups’ members to transform the crop and livestock structure, focusing on
growing new varieties with high yield and quality
and suitable to the commune's natural conditions.
Attention has been also paid to building models
to produce new maize and hybrid rice varieties, breed big herds of cows and
buffalos, and process animal feed.
Along with
measures to help the groups’ members access and effectively use loans, many emulation
movements were launched to encourage local farmers, women, war veterans and
young people to promote production and business activities and support each
other to eradicate poverty, and make their fortune.
The effective use of preferential
credit loans in Tan Lap has remarkably supported the implementation of the national target programme on reducing poverty, building new-style rural areas and ensuring social security in the locality.
So far, the rate of poor households in the commune has droped to 27.6 percent, and the per capita income stands
at 28
million VND per year./.
Hoa Binh is carried out investment projects to upgrade three district medical centres in Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts and Hoa Binh city. The projects are funded by the central budget under the Economic and Social Recovery and Development Programme, aiming to improve healthcare services. The goal is to gradually develop a system of modern and quality district-level healthcare facilities.
To improve the cultural and spiritual life of the elderly, the associations for the elderly at various levels in Hoa Binh province have created many interesting and meaningful activities, attracting the participation of a large number of old people. These activities provide opportunities for them to improve both their physical and mental health, enabling them to live happily and healthily.
The pilot programme for sending Vietnamese workers to the Republic of Korea (RoK) for seasonal agricultural jobs continues under a collaboration between localities of the two countries, running for five years from January 1, 2022.
Staff of the Red Cross Society of Hoa Binh province were deeply moved by a meaningful and humanitarian act by Mr Vu Huu Lung, 86, in Hoa Binh city, to donate his corneas, which brought hopes to those yearning for the light. Before passing away, Lung left behind a noble wish to donate all of his organs, including his corneas, to help patients suffering from blindness and those in need of organ transplants to revive their lives.
In the small house of Bui Van Luong in Bung 2 Hamlet, Thu Phong commune, Cao Phong district, an array of traditional items such as serving trays, woven storage baskets for blankets, sticky rice containers, and bamboo baskets are beautifully and skillfully crafted.
Over the recent past, the education and training sector of Hoa Binh province has paid great attention to reforming management activities, improving teachers’ quality, and innovating teaching methods that focus on quality and efficiency, at the same time with implementing the sector’s emulation campaigns and movements.
