Women make products from water hyacinth in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province’s Chau Duc district. (Photo: VNA)
Ba Ria-Vung Tau (VNA) - The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau plans to reduce its poverty rate to0.5 percent under national poverty standards by 2025.
The province now has 2,083 poor households, accounting for 0.73 percent of the total number.
To meet the target, the province will offer vocational training and jobs to thepoor, and other support policies.
Speaking at a seminar held in the province thisweek, DinhThi Truc My, deputy director ofthe provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said the province’s socialallowance rate for the poor in 2016-2020was 1.2 times higher than the national rate.
The provincial People’s Committee, relevant departments and agencies and localities hadimplemented poverty-reduction policies with effective and suitable measures,she said.
Support like soft loans, health care, education and poverty reduction modelswere given priority.
The provincial Fatherland Front Committee and its member organisations mobilised financialcontributions from individual and organisations to build houses for the poor,provide scholarships to poor students, and give gifts to poor households onnational holidays and the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.
The province also gave poor ethnic households animal and crop seeds, houses,household use water, and school fees.
It invested in power, roads and schools to improve the lives of poor ethnichouseholds.
Last year, Ba Ria city became the province’sfirst locality to have no poor households.
Dat Do districthas also reduced poverty significantly in recent years. The district’s rate ofpoor households fell from 11.3 percent in 2016 to 0.22 percent last year.
Tran Thi Kim, head of thedistrict’s Bureau of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said the district hadeffectively implemented support measures suited for poor households.
With contributions from political-social organisations, associations andcompanies in and outside the district, the district had been very effective inreducing poverty, she said./.
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Women make products from water hyacinth in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province’s Chau Duc district. (Photo: VNA) 
