Nghe An supports and helps poor communes in the West with nearly 111 billion VND

(Baonghean.vn) -On the morning of August 29, the Steering Committee for supporting the poor and poor communes in the Western region of Nghe An held a meeting to evaluate the results of the work of supporting and helping poor communes in the Western region in 2015 and the first 6 months of 2016; and to deploy tasks and solutions in the coming time.

Comrade Le Minh Thong - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting.

Comrade Le Minh Thong - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the conference.

In 2015 and the first 6 months of 2016, in addition to 108 units assigned to help 110 poor communes in the West, many corporations, general companies, individuals and philanthropists across the country participated in supporting poor communes with a total amount of nearly 111 billion VND.

From this amount, 72 new houses were built and 33 temporary houses were repaired for poor households and policy families; vocational training was provided for nearly 9,500 people, including nearly 1,000 people who went to work abroad; support was given to build many effective production and livestock models; investment was made in building schools and civil works...

Leaders of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs reported on the results of mobilizing and supporting poor communes in the West.

However, some units have not mobilized much funding to help poor communes, only focusing on helping with immediate needs and not on livelihoods or long-term orientation; some communes still have the mindset of waiting, relying, and leaving the help to agencies and units...

People of Que Son - Que Phong commune are supported with cows to develop livestock farming.

Concluding the meeting, comrade Le Minh Thong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee acknowledged and highly appreciated the results of mobilizing and supporting the poor and poor communes in the western region. At the same time, he requested that in the coming time, it is necessary to promote information and propaganda work to raise awareness for officials, people, mass organizations and enterprises about the significance of supporting and helping poor communes in the western region.

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The members of the Steering Committee need to further strengthen propaganda and mobilization work, and include this content in the annual emulation ranking work of agencies and units. Enhance the responsibility of individuals and units assigned to help poor communes and the awareness of Party committees and authorities of poor communes and poor people to strive to escape poverty. Timely propagate units that do well on mass media. Have solutions to help the poor and poor communes effectively with the goal of taking into account long-term livelihoods...

Hoang Vinh