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Tien Giang works to reduce poverty rate to 2.99 percent

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang strives to reduce the poverty rate to 2.99 percent by the end of 2019, down 0.41 percent, or 1,950 households, from 2018.
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Tien Giang (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province ofTien Giang strives to reduce the poverty rate to 2.99 percent by the end of2019, down 0.41 percent, or 1,950 households, from 2018.

Pham Minh Tri, Director of the provincial Department ofLabour, Invalids, and Social Affairs said that to this end, the province willstrengthen communications to get social consensus in sustainable povertyreduction.

Tien Giang will organise training courses for officialsengaging in poverty reduction, while improving locals’ skills and supportingthem to get rid of poverty.

Tri said that the province will continue applying supportpolicies, such as reducing electricity price for poor households, helping themaccess preferential credit from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, assistingstudents from poor households in tuition, and offering free legal consultancyfor poor people.

Relevant departments will roll out specific measures in thiseffort, including building infrastructure in Tan Phu Dong districts andlocalities facing extreme difficulties; assisting the development of agro-forestry-fisheriesproduction; multiplying effective poverty reduction models; and creatingoptimal conditions for the poor to access policies, resources and markets.

Alongside, Tien Giang will organise community dialogues onpoverty reduction policies, while introducing efficient models in thefield.-VNA 
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