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Muong Chieng commune (Da Bac district) has eight hamlets and 946 households with 4,070 people. Over the past time, local authorities have paid due attention to poverty reduction work, invested in infrastructure and developed production, thus increasing income and gradually improving the lives of local residents.
The "cow bank” programme, implemented by the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) since 2010, has benefited many disadvantaged families in Tan Lac district through the provision of breeding cows. Performed by the district Red Cross, the model has provided hundreds of breeding cows to impoverished and disadvantaged individuals, helping them improve their economic conditions and establish sustainable livelihoods, thus uplifting themselves out of poverty.
The Vietnam Women Union Central Committee and the UNICEF Vietnam on May 28 organised a programme in response to World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2024. The online programme was connected to more than 300 sites in the country's 63 cities and provinces.
Donating land is not an easy decision for any family or individual, especially for farmers who consider land as an extremely important and valuable asset. However, many locals in Mai Chau district have voluntarily given their land to the State for security-defence reinforcement in the locality, serving the common interest of the whole society.
Hoa Binh province has been allocated with sufficient vaccines for the local expanded vaccination programme after the supply of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and 5-in-1 one was disrupted from November 2023 to the beginning of this year.
Promoting and upholding the role of the great national solidarity bloc, the Fatherland Front Committee of Kim Boi district in Hoa Binh province has been connecting with organisations and individuals to call for people's contributions to the "For the Poor" fund. With the fund, the committee has supported disadvantaged families in the locality to build and repair houses. The assistance helps poor people settle down, gradually stabilise their lives, and get out of poverty.
Promoting the role of gathering the great solidarity of the entire people, the Fatherland Front of Kim Boi district has connected with organizations and individuals to mobilize the people to contribute and build the fund "For the Poor”. From the fund, they have supported the new construction, upgrading, and repairing the houses, the spacious and warm houses, creating conditions to help the poor people settle down, gradually stabilize their lives and escape poverty.
In recent years, the patriotic emulation movement has been deployed more and more widely by all the levels and branches in Cao Phong district, attracting the participation of a large number of officials and people. From the patriotic emulation movement, many typical groups and individuals have appeared. Thereby, it has created the motivation to contribute to the successful implementation of the goals and tasks of the local socio-economic development.
Companies and factories across Hoa Binh have conducted various activities to care for trade union members and labourers in the locality during the Workers’ Month in May, encouraging them to work harder and contributing to bringing resolutions of the resolutions of trade union congresses at all levels into life.
After three years of implementation, the Japanese-funded project "Reducing Income- and Health-related Vulnerability of Older Persons” (Project VIE071 ) has shown efficiency in Hoa Binh province, one of its six target localities. Thirty inter-generational self-help clubs (ISHC) were established under the project, helping local elderly well adapt to an aging society.
Thanks to the spirit of land donation for the community, the road connecting two residential clusters in Doan Ket 1 hamlet, Quang Tien Commune (Hoa Binh city), has been concreted and widened, facilitating economic and social development and new-style rural building.
In recent years, the preferential loans from the Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) have been contributing to creating jobs for many employees in the province. This source of capital has helped many households invest in economic restructuring, increasing income, and reducing the sustainable poverty.
In the morning of May 9th, the Provincial Women's Union held a conference to summarize the Project "Empowering women’s rights through the access to the Law on Cyber Security, Marriage and Family Law”.
Ms. Bui Thi Dinh, the President of the Women's Union of Dinh Cu commune (Lac Son) says: Dinh Cu is a particularly difficult commune of the district, Muong ethnic group accounts for 90%. When being selected to participate in the project "Empowering women’s right through the access to the Law on Cyber Security and Law on Marriage and Family”, especially establishing the model "Equality in marriage” in Muong Chong hamlet with the participation of 30 members, along with propaganda and dissemination work on gender, the Law on Marriage and Family, and the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence has helped raise the awareness and qualifications for the officials and women members.
The club model "Women integrating in the online environment" is one of the two basic models of a project on empowering women through access to the Law on Cyber Security, and the Marriage and Family Law, sponsored by the Justice Initiatives Facilitation Fund (JIFF) - EU Justice and Legal Empowerment Programme (EU JULE).
In recent years, Thung Nai commune on has undergone significant changes in its appearance, landscape, and lives of local residents. Road 435 from Hoa Binh City to Tan Lac district’s Suoi Hoa commune, passing through the Thung Nai commune, has helped attract many tourists to the area.
A seminar on promoting the startup movement among high school students has been held recently by the provincial Department of Education and Training and the Vietnam National University of Agriculture at Tan Lac High School in Tan Lac district of Hoa Binh province.
In the morning of April 24th, at Uncle Ho’s Monument on Hoa Binh Hydroelectric Project, Vietnam Youth Federation coordinated with Hoa Binh Youth Federation to organize the journey "I love my Fatherland” to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory.
From the fact that the market takes place only every Tuesday, Bo market in Van Son commune (Tan Lac) officially takes place every Sunday from March 24. Thereby, the aim is to turn the market into a place promoting the cultural identity of Muong people in Hoa Binh and the consumption of goods and products of the neighboring communes, meeting the needs of tourists for the local products when travelling to Van Son at weekends.
Nguyen Van Toan, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, chaired a meeting of the Steering Committee on Population and Development.
Hoa Binh province’s Department of Education and Training on April 16 held a conference on the materialisation of the Prime Minister’s directive on the further implementation of the project on the application of population database, e-identification and e-authentication for national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period with a vision to 2030. The provincial Department of Education and Training signs cooperation agreements on cashless tuition fee collection with partners and businesses.
Creating jobs for labourers in general and young people in particular is currently a focus of the province, with vocational training linked to job creation considered one of the strategic breakthrough solutions.
A total of 30 intergenerational self-help clubs (ISHC) have been established in Hoa Binh province under the project "Reducing Income- and Health-Related Vulnerability of Older Persons in Vietnam" (VIE071) since 2021.
Nguyen Thi Nu, a resident of Thach Ly sub-area in Da Bac township of Da Bac district, has been popular in the area as a simple woman that is rich in compassion. For nearly 10 years, she has spread her kindness through many charity activities to ease difficulties for the needy.
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