“Day for the Poor” campaign receive widespread support
Pham The Duyet, President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee and Head of the Mobilisation Board of the campaign said since the humanitarian campaign was launched six years ago, it has received a strong response from the country’s political system, mass organisations and individuals from all social strata. It has now expanded to 100,000 residential quarters of all 64 cities and provinces across the country.
In addition to the Party and State’s policies, contributions by mass organisations and individuals have helped reduce the poverty rate from 17-18 percent to seven percent recently (according to the former criteria). The Government’s programme 135 (to implement socio-economic development projects in specially disadvantaged communes) and programme 134 (to provide housing, cultivation land and safe water for poor ethnic groups) have also lent a helping hand to poverty reduction.
In response to the campaign, women, youth, war veterans and farmers have devised action programmes to help the poor. To date, more than 420,000 families which used to live in their makeshift and dilapidated houses have been provided with better housing.
According to Mr Duyet, local Fatherland Front chapters and mass organisations are assigned the task of caring for the poor, including providing them with accommodation, healthcare and school services.
Currently, the poor are mostly farmers and ethnic minority people who make up 50-60 percent of the total. Therefore, in its budget distribution, the Fund for the Poor gives priority to needy people in remote and far-flung areas and areas inhabited by ethnic groups in the Viet Bac former revolutionary base, North-Western, central and Central Highlands provinces.
22 percent of poor households by new standards
The country now has some 22 percent of households, mostly ethnic minority people classified as poor by new standards. They mainly live in mountainous provinces of
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) has highly appreciated the Party and State’s efforts in developing infrastructure facilities, irrigation projects and industrial crop growing areas and providing loans for farmers. However, it says, there remain as many as 250,000 poor households in need of help to develop the household economy.
So, it is imperative to effectively manage international relief aid and give priority to natural disaster prone areas, especially victims of the recent Typhoon Xangsane that swept over central
Clarifying relief aid distribution for the poor
There remain 390,000 dilapidated houses in
VFF President Pham The Duyet said that other poor localities such as Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Lai Chau, Dien Bien, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Quang Ngai and An Giang are also in need of relief aid.
No violation of relief aid distribution from 44 VFF member organisations has been detected so far, stressed Mr Duyet. The VFF has mobilised local people to contribute available materials such as bamboo, wood, bricks and tiles to help poor households re-build their houses.
Relief aid will be more effective if it is strictly controlled by a responsible organisation as the prime target is to help the poor, not just for the virtue of achievements, Mr Duyet said.
Major statistics:
* In the past nine months, domestic and foreign individuals and organisations have raised more than VND160 billion for the poor. The Mobilisation Board has allocated VND7.6 billion for localities, donated VND30 million to people affected by natural calamities and presented gifts worth VND240 million to poor households.
* About 36,600 “Great Unity” houses have been repaired and built across the country. Currently, as many as 397,000 makeshift and dilapidated houses need repairing and upgrading.
* The Vietnam Fatherland Front has presented certificates to 21 districts and towns and 364 wards and communes across the country in acknowledgement of their efforts to remove makeshift and dilapidated houses for the poor.
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