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Donors greatly contribute to ensuring social security in Long An

A ceremony to honour donors who made contributions to social security development in the Mekong Delta province of Long An, was held in the locality on September 12.
Donors greatly contribute to ensuring social security in Long An ảnh 1Former State President Truong Tan Sang (R) at the ceremony to honour donors who made contributions to social security development in Long An (Photo: https://thanhnien.vn/)

Long An (VNA) – A ceremony to honour donorswho made contributions to social security development in the Mekong Deltaprovince of Long An, was held in the locality on September 12.

In recent years, Long An’s authorities have called for and received greatsupport from businesses and individuals for social security activities in the province.

Donors have contributed to developing infrastructure facilities for traffic, agriculture,culture, education, and health care, and building houses for policy beneficiariesin Long An.

Notably, a programme launched by former State President Truong Tan Sang in 2016 hashelped construct 204 rural bridges, 27 traffic culverts and one road in Long An.

Through the programme worth 612 billion VND (over 26.3 million USD), as many as3,700 breeding cows were presented to poor and near poor families, while 16 schools and154 charity houses were constructed, and charitable assistance activities wereimplemented.

In 2020 alone, nearly 78 billion VND of donation were spent on building andupgrading 1,860 houses for local poor households

On the occasion, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Tran Van Canpresented certificates of merit to 64 organisations and three individuals fortheir significant contributions to ensuring  social security in the locality./. 
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