The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has targeted to cut thenumber of poor households by 1.5 to 2 percent per year while doublingannual per capita income of ethnic minority people to 50 million VNDbetween 2014 and 2019.
The set targets were told at the second Ethnic Minority Congress (2014 – 2019) in Kien Giang on November 26.
The congress saw the presence of Government Committee for EthnicMinorities Deputy Head Hoang Xuan Luong and 160 delegates representingover 250,000 ethnic people of the province.
Delegates also mappedout some other goals including new classroom buildings in everycommunity; encouraging at least 96 percent of school-aged children toattend schools; and providing vocational training for over 40 percent ofworking-age population.
Kien Giang province is home to 1.7 million people of 27 minorities, of which ethnics account for 14.88 percent.
The province has been bumping thousands of billion VND to developinfrastructure and economy in far-flung areas where those people live,for example, the 200 billion VND (9.36 million USD) project to supplyelectricity for Khmer people and the construction of a boarding schoolwith an investment of 50 billion VND (2.34 million USD) at the firstphase.
In addition, through a series of provincial efforts toreduce poverty, the living standard of local ethnic people has beennotably improved.
The province currently has 9 communes and 11hamlets under the government’s poverty reduction Programme 135, comparedto 18 communes and 12 hamlets in 2009.-VNA
The set targets were told at the second Ethnic Minority Congress (2014 – 2019) in Kien Giang on November 26.
The congress saw the presence of Government Committee for EthnicMinorities Deputy Head Hoang Xuan Luong and 160 delegates representingover 250,000 ethnic people of the province.
Delegates also mappedout some other goals including new classroom buildings in everycommunity; encouraging at least 96 percent of school-aged children toattend schools; and providing vocational training for over 40 percent ofworking-age population.
Kien Giang province is home to 1.7 million people of 27 minorities, of which ethnics account for 14.88 percent.
The province has been bumping thousands of billion VND to developinfrastructure and economy in far-flung areas where those people live,for example, the 200 billion VND (9.36 million USD) project to supplyelectricity for Khmer people and the construction of a boarding schoolwith an investment of 50 billion VND (2.34 million USD) at the firstphase.
In addition, through a series of provincial efforts toreduce poverty, the living standard of local ethnic people has beennotably improved.
The province currently has 9 communes and 11hamlets under the government’s poverty reduction Programme 135, comparedto 18 communes and 12 hamlets in 2009.-VNA
