Multiplying concern for the poor

(Baonghean.vn) - In order to create all conditions for the poor to stabilize their lives and contribute to ensuring social security, all levels, sectors, socio-political organizations, businesses, philanthropists and people of Nghe An province have, in many different ways, carried out many activities aimed at the poor, contributing to reducing the poverty rate in the whole province from 23.5% to 20.6%.

It can be said that in 2011, every poor person in the province received support and assistance from all levels, sectors, mass organizations, enterprises and people of all walks of life. In addition to implementing policies and regimes, such as ensuring that 100% of the poor have health insurance cards, supporting the poor with housing according to Decision 167 of the Government, supporting 3 poor districts according to the Government's program 30a, supporting poor students with loans for their studies, solving hunger relief, all levels, sectors and mass organizations in the province have devoted many resources from capital for job creation, State budget support, loans from the Social Policy Bank, the Fund for the Poor..., to focus on caring for the poor.

From the capital for hunger eradication, poverty reduction, and job creation, in the year, basically 100% of poor households had access to preferential capital with low interest rates to develop production, improve living conditions; create jobs for over 36,000 workers, of which more than 10,000 people participated in labor export. For example, the creative way of the Anh Son Women's Union is to guarantee and complete procedures for poor member families to access loans from local banks; coordinate with departments and offices of agricultural extension, plant protection, and veterinary medicine to organize knowledge training, transfer of science and technology to develop the economy, eliminate hunger - reduce poverty, and strive to become rich legitimately.

Currently, the Association is managing the capital entrusted by the bank of over 84 billion VND; providing loans to 5,057 members; eliminating hunger and reducing poverty for over 500 families of female members in 2011. In addition, the Association has also launched a spirit of mutual love, donating cash and rice to help hundreds of members facing difficult circumstances in life. Launching a fundraising campaign to establish a "Warm House of Love" fund to build and repair 5 houses for poor single women in especially difficult circumstances...

Not only creating conditions for the poor to rise up through supporting loans, the "For the Poor" fund - a movement that has become a way of thinking in every citizen - has also contributed to creating significant resources to impact the poor in a practical and appropriate way. During the year, the whole province mobilized over 22 billion VND, the highest ever, reaching 130% of the plan.

Typically, Dien Chau district reached nearly 2 billion VND; Do Luong nearly 1.6 billion VND; Quynh Luu reached 1.7 billion VND; Quy Hop 672 million VND.... With the mobilized amount, we have supported poor households to build new 1,242 houses and repair 354 houses; supported the poor to buy seeds and animals; supported to buy medicine; supported the children of poor households to go to school; supported the poor to celebrate Tet...

Mr. Nguyen Quang Hanh - Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province, affirmed: "The poor often do not have the conditions to rise up. However, when organizations and individuals help them with specific and practical actions such as housing support for them to settle down, livestock support to create initial capital or impacts to create capital, production materials..., they have the conditions to work, to increase production, create products with commodity value, and more importantly, have the motivation and momentum to rise up, limiting negative issues from arising."

In the last days of 2011, we had the opportunity to visit many rural areas in the province, witnessing the joy of many poor households who were fortunate to receive help from the whole society. In a new 3-room house with an area of ​​80m2 built from the "For the Poor" fund, with the help of relatives, neighbors and the family's own internal strength, Ms. Truong Thi Luong, Ham village, Chau Dinh commune, Quy Hop district could not hide her joy: "I really thank the Party and the State for helping our family have a new house, rain or shine now we no longer have to worry about dilapidation. Without the support of the State and the community, poor households like my family would not know when they would have a decent house like this to live in.

Having a house, from now on the family will try to make a living". Or like the family of Ms. Gian Thi Thi, in Bai Da hamlet, Phuc Son commune (Anh Son), 5 years ago was also a poor household, the Women's Union created conditions for her to borrow 20 million VND to invest in a farm, now she not only paid off all the debt, escaped poverty but also rose to become a well-off household in the area, having the conditions for her children to study well, build a spacious house. The family of Ms. Le Thi Khuyen, hamlet 8, Nghi Hop commune, Nghi Loc district is also a family that escaped poverty thanks to preferential loans to build a farm raising hundreds of chickens, pigs, cows, earning over 40 million VND/year...

The efforts of all levels, sectors, organizations, people of all walks of life and poor households themselves in the past year are very commendable. However, currently, the whole province still has 20.06% poor households, equivalent to over 164,000 poor households, not to mention more than 92,000 near-poor households that, without positive impacts, can easily become poor households. Therefore, the issue is that all levels, sectors, organizations, enterprises and people of all walks of life, with their responsibilities, continue to join hands to help poor and near-poor households in the whole province, striving to reduce the poverty rate to 17.35% by the end of 2012.

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