Banking sector supports 21 billion VND to build 300 gratitude houses in Nghe An
(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of July 5, in Vinh City, the State Bank of Vietnam held a ceremony to present social security programs of the banking sector to Nghe An province.
The ceremony was attended by Party Central Committee members: Le Minh Hung - Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, Nguyen The Ky - General Director of the Voice of Vietnam; along with leaders of the banking sector and a number of commercial banks.
On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee; leaders of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province; comrades of the Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee;...
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| Leaders of the State Bank of Vietnam presented support to the Nghe An Province Gratitude Fund. Photo: Thanh Duy |
At the ceremony, representatives of the State Bank of Vietnam donated 500 million VND to the province's gratitude fund.
Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank), Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development (BIDV), Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade (VCB) and Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) supported the cost of renovating the Vietnam - Laos International Martyrs' Cemetery in Anh Son district with a total amount of 2.2 billion VND, of which each bank supported 550 million VND.
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| Comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province received support for building houses for the poor in Nghe An province from BIDV leaders. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Leaders of 4 banks: Agribank, BIDV, VCB, Vietinbank donated 300 houses to poor households in Nghe An province with a total value of 21 billion VND. Of which, Agribank, VCB, Vietinbank each donated 3.5 billion VND to build 50 houses. BIDV alone donated 150 houses with a total value of 10.5 billion VND.
Speaking at the ceremony, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province Nguyen Duc Trung expressed his deep gratitude for the affection of the leaders of the State Bank of Vietnam and commercial banks for the Party Committee, government and people of the province.
Along with socio-economic development, Nghe An pays great attention to social security, hunger eradication and poverty reduction. By the end of 2019, the poverty rate was about 4%.
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| Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long and leaders of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs received financial support for the renovation of the Vietnam - Laos International Martyrs' Cemetery from leaders of Vietinbank. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Over the past years, Nghe An has mobilized resources of more than 300 billion VND to support the construction and repair of more than 6,000 gratitude and solidarity houses. In particular, in the past 2 years, with the attention of organizations, agencies, businesses, and philanthropists, the province has mobilized nearly 90 billion VND to support the construction of 1,755 gratitude houses.
However, as the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee shared, Nghe An is a large area, the number of households in difficulty is still very large. Currently, the whole province still has more than 41,000 poor households, more than 75,000 near-poor households, of which about 6,500 households need support to build houses.
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| Provincial leaders presented a letter of thanks from the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province to Agribank leaders for their contributions to the province's social security work. Photo: Thanh Duy |
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| Provincial leaders presented souvenirs to thank Vietcombank. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Therefore, the attention of the Banking sector today is very meaningful, supporting Nghe An province to continue to carry out the work of gratitude and support the construction of gratitude houses for poor households.
Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung said that the province will direct the construction of 300 gratitude houses in a timely, effective and appropriate manner for the right beneficiaries; at the same time, he hoped that the banking sector would continue to pay attention, support and join hands with Nghe An not only in socio-economic development but also in social security work.