Ha Giang province: Over USD33 million to be spent on poverty reduction
Nguyen Minh Tien, the Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee confirmed the information.
The project will be carried out in rural areas on a sustainable basis, to both increase the income and reduce the vulnerability of poor families in targeted communes.
Accordingly, the project aims to reduce poverty by 50% and malnutrition amongst children by 30% by 2020 in the nominated areas while also balancing livelihoods between families mastered by male and those mastered by female.
Being a mountainous province in the northern border area, Ha Giang province has 6 of 11 districts listed among 61 poorest districts of the country enjoying preferential policies based on Resolution 30a of the Government.
Besides the high poverty rate at over 50%, the districts experience difficult transport conditions and poor knowledge of ethnic minorities./.
Compiled by VNF