Ninh Binh works to improve living standards for the poor and disadvantaged people

Helping poor people to stably settle down

Since the beginning of 2023, localities have actively carried out the provincial People's Council's Resolution 43/2023/NQ-HDND on providing money for building new houses or repairing houses for the poor in the period of 2023-2025.

According to statistic of the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, in 2023, Ninh Binh has 500 poor households who are eligible for financial assistance to build new houses or repair old ones with a combined sum of 41.5 billion VND.

To date, 495 out of 500 houses have been built or repaired and the rest will start construction in 2024. Having stable houses, the poor families will improve their income and soon get rid of poverty.

Providing livelihoods for the poor

In the past few years, administrations at all levels, sectors, and localities have paid special attention to providing vocational training and giving loans to the poor for expanding production, helping them to improve their livelihoods and incomes remarkably.

In 2023, over 6,000 poor and near-poor households were provided with soft loans by the Bank for Social Policies for agricultural production and household business. Over 5,000 labourers received loans to seek new jobs and maintain their current employments.

The labour, invalids and social affairs sector has constantly coordinated with localities to collect labourers' demand for vocational training and then organized job fairs, thus bringing job opportunities to local labourers, including poor and near-poor people.

Besides, local administrations at all levels, agencies, organisations and individuals have constantly visited and presented gifts to social welfare beneficiaries. In 2023, they presented more than 150,000 gift packages worth nearly 61.5 billion VND to policy beneficiaries, the elderly, poor households and disadvantages families during the Lunar New Year Festival (Tet).

These activities have helped Ninh Binh remarkably reduce its poverty rate. By the end of 2023, Ninh Binh had 5,905 poor households and 7,207 near-poor families, accounting for 1.86% and 2.27% of the province's total households, down 0.5% and 0.54%, respectively.

Translated by Nguyen Thuy