Join hands to realize the dream of 'settling down' for the poor

Hundreds of poor households have new houses

The family of Mr. Phan Ba ​​Tuat in Hamlet 3, Trung Son Commune is in extremely difficult circumstances. He is old, weak and has a serious illness, the whole family of 4 lives on a few fields. Lacking in every way, the eldest son, who had just finished secondary school, had to drop out to work for hire, earn money to help his mother pay for his father's medicine and raise his younger siblings. For decades, the whole family has had to live in a damp, cramped, dilapidated level 4 house, with no conditions to repair it... When the local authorities paid attention and mobilized support to build a new, spacious house, worth more than 100 million VND, for Mr. Tuat's family, it was a dream come true.

Looking at the house being completed, Mr. Tuat and his wife could not hide their happiness. Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tinh, Mr. Tuat's wife, excitedly said: "For many years, every time the rainy season comes, the whole family has no place to live and is always worried about the house collapsing. When the local authorities surveyed for support, my husband and I did not dare to accept it because we did not have the money and thought we did not have the strength to build a house... Now that we have the house we have always dreamed of, my family is extremely grateful for the attention of the Party Committee, the government, the organizations connecting the benefactors to support, together with relatives and neighbors joining hands to help...".

Sharing the joy of receiving support for a new house this year is Mrs. Dinh Thi An, in Van My hamlet, Nhan Son commune. Mrs. An is over 60 years old, sick and ill, and her life depends on subsidies and the help of her brothers and relatives. For many years, she has lived alone in a dilapidated, leaky house. Sharing her difficulties, the Steering Committee of the district campaign connected with benefactors, the commune government, and mobilized relatives, clans, and local organizations to support her in building a new house, with a budget of 75 million VND. Thanks to that meaningful help, Mrs. An has a spacious house, reducing her hardships, and living happily in her old age.

Thanks to the widespread movement to support the construction and repair of houses for the poor and those in difficult housing circumstances, since the beginning of the year, in Do Luong district, 107 poor households have received the joy of being supported to build new and repair spacious houses (of which, 101 houses were newly built); with a total amount of more than 5.5 billion VND. To date, 46 houses have been handed over, 61 houses are under construction.

Creativity in resource mobilization

Trung Son is one of the communes with good methods in mobilizing resources to support housing construction for poor households. Comrade Hoang Thi Hong Hanh - Secretary of the Commune Party Committee shared: “As a purely agricultural commune, people's lives are still difficult, there are few businesses in the area, but thanks to the attention of the Steering Committee of the campaign, the district has accompanied and connected with benefactors to support; on the commune side, we sent a letter calling on children far from home and some businesses in the area to support more funding and construction materials.

The Steering Committee of the Commune Movement also directly organized meetings to propagate and mobilize brothers and relatives of poor households to join hands and contribute, and at the same time, assigned targets to organizations in the village to support working days. Thanks to that participation, consensus was created among the people, so that many new, spacious houses are expected to be given to poor households this year.

With many synchronous, practical solutions and creative ways of doing things, Do Luong district has become one of the bright spots in effectively implementing the campaign. According to comrade Vuong Thi Quy - Chairman of the Fatherland Front Committee of Do Luong district, Directive No. 21-CT/TU, dated February 10, 2023 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on strengthening the Party's leadership in mobilizing and supporting the construction and repair of houses for the poor and people with difficult housing circumstances is a campaign with profound humanistic significance, demonstrating the responsibility of the community towards the poor. Therefore, Do Luong district mobilized the entire political system to participate resolutely, directing the work of perfecting the Steering Committees at all levels; issuing official dispatches assigning specific tasks to members, agencies, departments, offices, the Fatherland Front, and organizations to coordinate in implementation.

The Fatherland Front advises the District Steering Committee to issue operating regulations, implementation plans, and guidelines for conducting reviews and surveys, and is a pioneer in entering data into the database software on reviewing poor households, near-poor households, and households with housing difficulties in the province. The District Fatherland Front also builds a magazine with full information and images of poor households and households with housing difficulties; at the same time, promotes propaganda of the meaning of the campaign through conferences, seminars, meetings with fellow countrymen, businesses inside and outside the district, etc., creating consensus among cadres, party members, people, and philanthropists, attracting resources to implement the program.

In particular, the Steering Committees of the campaign at all levels strive to become a reliable "bridge" between benefactors and the addresses in need of help, by providing complete and accurate information about the circumstances of disadvantaged families, and after mobilizing funds, promptly allocating and disbursing funds to ensure publicity, transparency, and the right purpose and target; organizing meaningful donation programs so that sponsors can directly share difficulties with families. Thanks to that, the practical meaning of the program is increasingly spreading in the community; more and more benefactors trust and accompany.

In addition, the district also includes the results of the campaign in the criteria for reviewing, evaluating, and classifying annual emulation for relevant collectives, and at the same time, commends and rewards collectives and individuals who are active and have effective methods; focuses on performing well the work of inspecting and supervising the policy of building and repairing houses for poor households and households with difficult housing circumstances every year.

Promoting the achieved results, in the coming time, Do Luong district will further strengthen the leadership of the Party Committee, the drastic participation of the government, continue to promote propaganda work, diversify forms of mobilization, in order to create a strong spread of the humanistic and practical meaning of the movement in the community; determined to successfully implement the program's objectives (support for building new houses and repairing houses for 276 households) at least 1 year ahead of schedule; contribute to the implementation of sustainable poverty reduction and social security policies in the district./.

Dinh Nguyet