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.
In the afternoon of December 17, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism organized a summary and awarding ceremony for the Online Competition on preventing and controlling the Family Violence in 2024.
Implementing the Resolution of the 17th Provincial Party Congress to reach a health insurance coverage rate of 95% or more of the population, the Women's Union at all provincial levels has deployed the creative models and methods and effectively replicated them. These activities not only contribute to completing the social security goals, but they also spread the spirit of solidarity and sharing in the community.
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.
