Provincial Relief Committee disburses 4.3 billion VND to relieve hunger during the harvest season

(Baonghean.vn) -This afternoon, March 15, the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee and the Provincial "Day for the Poor" Campaign Committee summarized and evaluated the management of the relief fund in the past time, and discussed the plan to allocate funds to districts, cities and towns to help poor households in the first 6 months of 2012.

Currently, the province's disaster relief fund according to Decree 64/CP has 8.8 billion VND left. The Standing Committee of the Provincial Fatherland Front will allocate 4.3 billion VND to provide timely support to poor households in difficult areas during the harvest period. At the same time, the Provincial "Day for the Poor" Campaign Committee plans to increase the support level for building "great solidarity" houses for poor households from the old level of 10 - 15 million VND/house to the general level of 20 million VND/house.

Accordingly, in March - April 2012, the Relief Committees of districts and cities must urgently disburse funds to support poor households in disaster and difficult areas. The form of support this time is mainly to support money for poor households to buy rice to relieve hunger, on average each poor household is supported with 5kg (converted into money). Localities will proactively support those in need such as: fishermen at sea in storms; victims of natural disasters, work accidents... in a timely manner, ensuring the right subjects and the right purposes. The Relief Committee will establish inspection teams for relief work in districts and towns before and after the relief period.

Duy Nam