Huynh Kim Oanh, chairman of provincial Sponsoring

Society for the Disabled and Orphans presenting gifts

to poor households in Ben Cat district

 Binh Duong province has made a breakthrough in hunger eradication and poverty reduction. The poverty line herein was adjusted two times to be suitable to the local socio-economic development between 2006 and 2010. It was two times higher than that of the nation.

 

In the 2009 and 2010, the poverty line was VND600,000 per person per month in the countryside and VND780,000 for those living in urban areas. Under the poverty line, the whole province had 7,417 poor houses by the end of 2009, or 3.45% of total. In 2010, the province will strive to reduce the ratio of the poor to below 2%.

 

Under the implementation of the 2006-2010 reduction program, the province has realized support policies for the poor, which is line with each locality’s socio-economic development. Noticeably, the province over time spent billions of dong on giving vocational training and creating jobs for rural laborers and demobees; built and handed over unity houses to the poor by provincial Fund for the Poor at all levels…

 

Ninh Quoc Binh, deputy director of provincial Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs said: “The National Target Program on Poverty Reduction in the province has entered a new period with many measures that are line with the local actual situation”. So far, the province has basically fulfilled its targets on hunger eradication and poverty reduction and now builds a new poverty line for the 2010 and 2015 period.

 

Provincial People’s Committee has just suggested provincial Party Standing Committee to consider and approve the new poverty line that will be applied for the 2010 and 2015 period as follows: below VND800,000 per person per month in the countryside and below VND1mln for those living in urban areas. Under the new poverty line, the whole province will have around 15,037 poor households and 6,015 those living near poverty line. By 2015, the province will have no more poor households under the new poverty line.

 

Reported by Van Son-Translated by K.T