Since early this year, Ben Cat district’s Steering Board for the Poverty Reduction Program has made a lot of substantial activities for the poor, helping them rise up out of poverty. As of late 2010, it is estimated at the whole district has additional 450 households free from poverty.

 

Ben Cat has become a locality with strong industrial growth in recent years, helping improve the lives of the local people. But, there are still many poor people that are need of help to rise up out of poverty and stabilize their lives.

 

 

Representative of provincial Businesswomen’s Club presenting a gift to a poor person in Ben Cat district

 

According to statistics, there were 893 poor households reported in the district in early this year, or 2.5% of total. Before the real situation, the district’s Steering Board for the Poverty Reduction Program has got involved in many support activities for the poor, including granting 5,522 health insurance cards for all the local poor people.

 

The steering board also teamed up with the Telecommunications Center to grant 883 fixed telephones for the local poor households under a program named “G.Phone-Sharing efforts in poverty reduction”; helped the offspring of the local poor households get jobs suitable to their ability; cooperated with provincial Job Center to open 2 classes on how to tap rubber latex for 97 learners, 4 of whom are the offspring of the local poor households…

 

Such these apart, the steering board paid attention to providing loans for the poor to develop home based business to improve their lives. As of April 30, 2010, the district and relevant agencies provided financial support of VND320mln for 64 cases that must replace the banned vehicles; helped 50 poor households and those near poverty get preferential loans…The district also built and handed over 20 unity houses to the poor with a total expense of nearly VND552mln…

 

With the above-mentioned support efforts, as of late 2010, the number of poor households in the district has reduced to 443 households or 1.27%.

 

Reported by Cam Ly-Translated by K.T