Poor labourers offered chance to work abroad
Ho Chi Minh City will help members of ethnic minorities, families who have made contributions to the revolution, and eligible poor to work abroad, mostly in Japan and Malaysia.
Under the city’s VND3.3 billion (US$145,000) programme, these people will be provided with free vocational training and instruction in foreign languages.
According to the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, HCM City will also continue to operate a programme that offers soft loans of up to VND100 million (US$ 4,700) to poor individuals.
The loans are sourced from the Fund for the Poor, the Social Policy Bank, and the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development.
The department has assigned the Overseas Manpower Service Company (Suleco) to implement the new programme through the end of the year.
Tran Hieu Liem, deputy head of the department’s Labour, Wage and Salary Division, said that about 600 labourers are expected to work overseas by the end of this year.