Contribute to houses for the poor in Nghe An

Previously, in 2022, TH Group also joined hands to sponsor and contribute to the construction of 115 gratitude houses in the province.

TH Group and Bac A Bank have donated 10 billion VND through the For Vietnamese Stature Fund to support the construction of 200 houses. Photo: Thanh Duy

10 billion VND and 200 houses for the poor

The Covid-19 pandemic has left behind many material and spiritual losses for the entire population, especially in a province with many difficulties like Nghe An. In 2022, Nghe An continued to suffer the consequences of natural disasters and floods. Although the Party Committee and people of the whole province have made great efforts in hunger eradication and poverty reduction, there are still many poor families in need of a warm home.

TH Group and BAC A BANK, through the For Vietnamese Stature Fund, support the construction of houses for the poor in Yen Thanh district. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Having given birth to 6 children, but now, at the age of 73, having lived more than half of her life, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Ky in Yen Phu hamlet, Van Thanh commune, Yen Thanh is still living in a dilapidated, old house left by her husband's parents. He passed away more than a year ago due to lung cancer, her 6 children are slow and poor, so for many years she has been raising her children, and when her children go to work far away, she turns to raising her grandchildren.

“My son went to work in the South, leaving his grandmother to help raise him. He had glomerulonephritis and had been treated for many years. My grandfather passed away but the debt for treatment had not been paid. Luckily, thanks to the kindness of our neighbors and relatives, we have not had the money to pay it back and no one has the heart to ask for it. But my husband and I have not been able to maintain the house for many years, so we had to accept it. Now my grandmother and I are still living here, and I sincerely hope that benefactors will help and support me in building a new house, even a small one, so that I don’t have to worry about leaks every time it rains,” she said sadly.

This year, 73 years old, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Ky still has to live in the dilapidated, old house that her husband's parents left her. Photo: Phu Huong

After decades of cement yard, the house has become dilapidated and peeling; in the corner of the house, where the rice bags are kept, a tarpaulin is hung up in case the rain and wind wet all the rice and there is no food to eat. “We are always worried about not being safe, but my grandmother and I only live on 1.5 sao of rice fields and a little money that our son sends home from time to time as a factory worker, so we have to accept it,” Mrs. Ky shared.

According to Mr. Le Van Khoa - Chairman of the Fatherland Front Committee of Van Thanh commune, after many efforts, the commune still has 5 old, dilapidated houses like the house of Mrs. Ky's family. From 2019 to now, thanks to the support and cooperation of the children in the commune who have worked far away and succeeded, plus the contributions of the people, we have supported the construction of 8 solid houses. Mrs. Ky's family has been included in the support plan since 2022 but currently has no funding to implement it.

Leading in charity and humanitarian activities

Carrying out corporate social responsibility, promoting the tradition of mutual love and support for the community, for many years, TH Group and Bac A Bank, through the Fund for Vietnamese Stature, have always paid great attention to charitable and humanitarian activities, especially contributing and accompanying the Party and State to care for people's lives, carry out hunger eradication, poverty reduction and social security. Accordingly, through the Fund for Vietnamese Stature, TH Group and Bac A Bank have joined hands to build thousands of Great Solidarity houses and hundreds of civil works across the country.

Enterprises support rebuilding houses for people in Ky Son flash flood area. Photo: Thanh Cuong

With the business philosophies: "For true happiness", "Putting one's own interests in the common interests of the nation, not maximizing profits but always finding ways to harmonize interests" to have a sustainable future and a happier life, over the past 12 years, it is difficult to count all the charitable activities that the company has implemented in social security and humanitarian activities, especially social activities for children.

Giving milk to children in Ky Son flash flood area. Photo: Phu Huong

Many typical activities include: Donating more than 30 million glasses of milk (worth nearly 250 billion VND) to poor children, the poor, and policy beneficiaries nationwide; Bringing millions of glasses of milk to children with serious illnesses, orphans, disadvantaged children, and poor children in coastal areas; gifts worth more than 100 billion VND in Tet charity activities for the poor and supporting people in areas affected by natural disasters, storms, floods, and salinity. Joining hands to implement social security programs of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and the Central Committee of the Red Cross, worth tens of billions of VND. In particular, the enterprise has donated more than 108 billion VND in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic, contributing to the construction of schools, bridges, and roads in remote areas; from 2012-2016, sponsoring surgery costs for hundreds of children with congenital heart disease at a cost of up to 5 billion VND.

In 2022 alone, businesses donated more than 300 gratitude houses to people in difficult circumstances in Tuyen Quang, Ha Giang, Dong Nai, Cao Bang, Yen Bai, Nghe An, and many other provinces and cities; implemented the Tet for the poor program and many other meaningful programs, with a total value of more than 70 billion VND, of which more than 22 billion VND supported house construction.

Donating a house of gratitude to Mr. Le Quang Khuong, a war invalid in Quang Son commune, Do Luong. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Of which, Nghe An alone has 115 houses, with a total value of nearly 10 billion VND; in addition to the 10 billion VND to sponsor the construction of 200 gratitude houses through the Program to mobilize and support the construction of houses for the poor and people in difficult circumstances in Nghe An province, in October 2022, joining hands with the people of Ky Son to overcome the difficulties after the flash flood, the units coordinated with Nghe An Newspaper to directly donate 500 million VND to support the construction of 10 houses and 74,000 products that are good for health.

Gifts to support Ky Son flash flood area. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Not only is it one of the leading and pioneering enterprises in supporting the construction of houses for poor households and households in difficult circumstances, initiating the Program to eliminate temporary houses for poor households with a total amount of 15.7 billion VND and more than 400 Great Solidarity houses in Anh Son, Do Luong, but the enterprise is also regularly present in many other charitable activities. From 2011-2013, the Program to give calves to eliminate poverty for farmers in the project area and in Nghe An province was worth 14 billion VND; in the period of 2013-2015, TH Group and Bac A Commercial Joint Stock Bank donated 3.2 billion VND to the Cow Bank program for farmers.

“The specific and practical social activities carried out systematically and persistently over the years, besides demonstrating the responsibility to the community for sustainable development of Bac A Commercial Joint Stock Bank and TH Group, also partly demonstrate the business strategy of the enterprise which is not to maximize profits but to maximize benefits, for sustainable development and for the community.”- Hero of Labor in the renovation period Thai Huong - Chairman of the Strategy Council of TH Group, General Director of BAC A BANK, and founder - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fund for Vietnamese Stature shared.