The percentage of impoverished households among the ethnic minority groups inthe province is projected to contract by 4-4.5 percent each year according tothe multidimensional approach.
To that end, Dak Lak province has increased investments in socio-economicinfrastructure in poor districts, border communes and localities in extremelydifficult circumstances.
All communes in the province are expected to have asphalt or concrete roads,standard health services, schools of different levels and community-basedlearning centres.
Preferential credit loans will be given to 250,000 poor and near-poor householdsor those recently escaping from poverty, and other social policy beneficiaries,in order to support them in production, business, and employment.
Poor households of the ethnic minority groups in underprivileged localitieswill be prioritized.
Apart from organising training courses on farming techniques for more than10,000 poor households, Dak Lak has provided free vocational training for ethnicminority labourers, poor and near poor households, while paying attention tohealth care, education-training, housing, legal assistance and health insurancefor the poor.
Dak Lak has more than 80,000 poor households, making up more than 19 percent ofthe total number of households in the province, mostly from the ethnic minoritygroups.
As many as 45 communes and 141 villages and hamlets in Dak Lak are facingextreme difficulties.-VNA