Disaster-resistant houses to be built for Mekong Delta poor
Poor households in the Mekong Delta provinces of Ca Mau and Ben Tre will be provided with disaster-resilient houses funded by Tan Dai Hung Plastic JSC.
BaRia – Vung Tau, (VNA) – Poor households in the Mekong Delta provincesof Ca Mau and Ben Tre will be provided with disaster-resilient houses funded by Tan DaiHung Plastic JSC.
An agreement on the funding was signed between representatives from TanDai Hung, the Ba Ria – Vung Tau Urban Sewerage and Development One Member Limited Company –the constructor, the Directorate for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control(DNDPC) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and officialsfrom Ben Tre and Ca Mau.
Under the agreement, Tan Dai Hung will donate 12 billion VND to build 40houses of this kind for disadvantaged people in the two localities.
The company’s move is in response to DNDPC’s programme to call forsupport from enterprises and the community for building disaster-resistant housesfor poor families living in natural disasters and flood-prone areasnationwide.
According to Hoang Duc Thao, General Director of the Ba Ria – Vung Tau Urban Sewerage and Development One Member Limited Company, his firm will use super-light non-ferrousconcrete building technology in the construction of these houses.
At the signing ceremony, DNDPC General Director Tran Quang Hoai asked thebeneficiary localities’ officials to closely work with the donor and constructorto well perform the project.
He hoped that there will be more enterprises joining hands to support poor householdsin areas vulnerable to natural disasters in the coming time.-VNA
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