Kien Giang betters Khmer people’s living standards
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has implemented a number of socio-economic development policies in recent years with the aim to raise the living standards of the local Khmer people.
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has implemented a number of socio-economic development policies in recent years with the aim to raise the living standards of the local Khmer people.
Since 2010, the province has spent 300 billion USD (13.6 million USD) on providing livelihood support, vocational training and soft loans for production as well as building infrastructure and water supply facilities for thousands of Khmer households, according to Danh Ngoc Hung, Head of the provincial Religious Committee.
Kien Giang currently has five ethnic minority boarding schools serving about 1,400 ethnic students each year. About 500 classes are available in Khmer-inhabited areas, providing lessons in the Khmer language for over 12,000 students.
About 8,800 impoverished households and over 34,000 people in disadvantaged and remote communes have been provided with health insurance worth 27 billion VND (1.22 million USD).
The province also spent 160 billion VND (7.2 million USD) to restore and build Khmer pagodas, places of worship and public cultural constructions.
The Khmer household poverty rate has fallen to 7.41 percent from 18.53 percent in 2010 and the rates of households accessing the power network and using sanitary water are 95.95 and 76 percent, respectively.
Kien Giang is now home to over 51,000 Khmer ethnic minority households, accounting for 12.5 percent of the province’s population.-VNA
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has spent around 600 billion VND (27.6 million USD) building and upgrading infrastructure facilities to support disadvantaged households in ethnic minority areas since 2011.
Nearly 300 courses to teach the Khmer language were organised in pagodas across Kien Giang province during the summer, benefiting around 7,000 local monks and children from ethnic minority groups.
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Tien Giang province has addressed the housing needs of 608 poor, near-poor, and policy-beneficiary families facing housing difficulties. Of these, 370 houses were newly constructed while 238 underwent major renovations.
Khmer people at a festival (Source: VNA)
