The project, carried out by the provincial Women's Union, focuses on 12 border communes from now until 2009.

The union has provided loans worth VND1 million each to 840 women to start business and production. In addition, it has mobilised more than 11,400 others to take part in clubs where they are informed of the Party and State's policies and information about human trafficking through the border at their monthly meetings.

The union has also distributed 12,000 leaflets to women, children and students for whom it cannot organise clubs on the issue.

An Giang police has so far this year detected 35 cases of women trafficking and has helped release 93 victims.

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