Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Binh Phuoc (VNA) – The southeastern province of Binh Phuoc hasearmarked 120.6 billion VND (5.1 million USD) this year for an annual programmeto help 1,000 poor ethnic households escape poverty.
It will be used to build houses and toilets for them, supply water andelectricity for those living in remote areas, create livelihoods, provide softloans to carry on small businesses, breed livestock, and buy agriculturalproduction tools like grass cutting and sawing machines and sprayers.
The province has 40 ethnic groups with 198,884 people, accounting for 19.7% ofits population.
It began implementing the annual programme in 2019, and has helped more than5,000 ethnic households escape poverty since.
It seeks to double the 2020 per capita income of ethnic people within the nexttwo years, provide all of them access to power and 99% of them with safe water.
It also implements a national programme for socio-economic development inethnic minority and mountainous areas./.
It will be used to build houses and toilets for them, supply water andelectricity for those living in remote areas, create livelihoods, provide softloans to carry on small businesses, breed livestock, and buy agriculturalproduction tools like grass cutting and sawing machines and sprayers.
The province has 40 ethnic groups with 198,884 people, accounting for 19.7% ofits population.
It began implementing the annual programme in 2019, and has helped more than5,000 ethnic households escape poverty since.
It seeks to double the 2020 per capita income of ethnic people within the nexttwo years, provide all of them access to power and 99% of them with safe water.
It also implements a national programme for socio-economic development inethnic minority and mountainous areas./.
VNA
