Jasmine planting helps Khmer people in Tra Vinh province escape poverty. (Photo: VNA)Tra Vinh (VNA) – A string of measures have been carried out in theMekong Delta province of Tra Vinh to realise the National Target Programme onSustainable Poverty Reduction.
According to Director of the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs Nguyen Van Ut, the province aims to cut the rate of poorhouseholds by 1.5 percent (equivalent to more than 4,000 households), includinga reduction of 3 percent of impoverished Khmer ethnic families (or 2,683households), and near poor households by 1.5 percent (or 4,137 households).
Agencies are enhancing communication work to raise public awareness ofsustainable poverty alleviation, while local authorities are providingvocational training, teaching farming techniques to locals and generating jobsfor poor and near poor people.
Ut said his department is working with the education sector to encouragedisadvantaged children to go to school, prevent school drop-outs, as well asbuild vocational training courses for rural people, ensuring they all have jobsafter graduating.
The department has worked with the Department of Construction and the Bank forSocial Policies to build houses for poor households in the locality.
Additionally, it has coordinated with the provincial departments of NaturalResources and Environment and Agriculture and Rural Development to build a cleanwater supply system for rural families.
As of the end of 2018, Tra Vinh province had 16,414 poor households (nearly 6 percentof the total population), more than 10,000 of which are Khmer ethnic families.
Under two national programmes, one on rural development and the other onsustainable poverty reduction, the province has been allocated more than 124billion VND (5.33 million USD) to build infrastructure in communes anddistricts, develop poverty alleviation models, branch out effective farmingmodels for poor and near poor households, and help impoverished and ethniclabourers work overseas.-VNA
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