(HBO) - Preferential credit policy has accompanied poor and policy beneficiaries households in Hoa Binh, a mountainous province with many difficulties, for decades. It has become an important driving force to help the poor gradually overcome challenges, making steady progress in poverty reduction and hunger eradication.
Photo: Thanks to social policy loans, the
family of Bui Thi Hoa, residing in Kho hamlet, Chi Dao commune (Lac Son
district) has invested in animal husbandry and escape poverty.
Chi Dao is a remote commune of Lac Son district where people's living
conditions are facing difficulty. Poor and near-poor households account for
over 40 percent of the commune's population.
Quach Cong Thai, Chairman of the commune People's Committee, emphasised that
social policy loan is one of the most important driving forces in the commune's
hunger eradication and poverty reduction.
In recent years, thanks to access to social policy loans, many poor, near-poor
households and social beneficiary policy families have raised buffaloes and
cows, pigs and chickens, and growing doi (Talauma), also known asMichelia
Tonkinensis,for economic development and increase their income.
Up to now, the total outstanding loans under social policy credit programmes in
the commune has reached over 11 billion VND with over 500 households receiving
loans. According to the chairman of the commune People's Committee, as many
people lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the timely disbursement of
policy capital has helped reduce difficulties for them.
Not only people in Chi Dao commune but also those in other localities have
benefit from social policy loans.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of people’s social life over the
past two years, however, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies’ branch in Hoa
Binh province has strived to mobilise sources and provide loans for poor
households and other policy beneficiaries.
Nguyen Minh Hung, Director of the branch said the total outstanding loan
balance from policy credit programmes in the province has surpassed 3.5
trillion VND (over 153.8 million USD), with over 123,000 needy households as
borrowers.
From the beginning of the year until now, the loan turnover has reached over
896 billion VND, helping over 25,000 customers access loans for production,
business, and social security.
Through preferential credit policy, nearly 2,000 workers got jobs and over
12,000 clean water and environmental sanitation works were constructed. As many
as 19 houses were built, 39 workers were able to go abroad for working, and 31
students and students in difficult circumstances could continue study thanks to
such loans.
Social policy loans have continued to make practical contributions to
sustainable poverty reduction, acting as a driving force to accelerate the
progress of the new-style rural development programme as well as to limit shark
loans in the province./.
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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.
