The “key” to sustainable poverty reduction in Yen Son

In recent years, vocational training and job creation for rural workers, especially ethnic minority workers, the poor, and poor households with knowledge, skills, and expertise to have jobs, create jobs, and have stable livelihoods in Yen Son district (Tuyen Quang province) is the "key" to sustainable poverty reduction and poverty escape. Proactively raising awareness and thinking in agricultural production, promoting the application of high technology in production, thereby improving the quality and increasing the competitiveness of agricultural products in the market. This is an important task that the agricultural sector of Son La province is aiming for, in order to develop competitive agriculture, towards building Son La into a green, fast and sustainable developing province. 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In recent years, vocational training and job creation for rural workers, especially ethnic minority workers, the poor, and poor households with knowledge, skills, and expertise to have jobs, create jobs, and have stable livelihoods in Yen Son district (Tuyen Quang province) is the "key" to sustainable poverty reduction and escape from poverty. Implementing Project 5 on Education and Training Development to Improve the Quality of Human Resources, the National Target Program for Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas (National Target Program 1719), Dak Lak province has allocated about 173 billion VND to invest in infrastructure and teaching equipment for ethnic minority boarding schools and semi-boarding schools. At the same time, pay attention to educational innovation, teaching methods suitable to the language and culture of each ethnic group. 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Mr. Vu Van Tuyen's family (Soi Dat village, Xuan Van commune, Yen Son district) earns over 600 million VND per year from growing grapefruit.

Strengthen vocational training, create jobs

Vocational training for farmers in rural areas, especially ethnic minorities, is considered an important task by all levels of the Farmers' Association in the district. To carry out this task, the Farmers' Support Center has coordinated with the Farmers' Associations of communes and towns to survey the vocational training needs of members, thereby supporting vocational training and job referrals, helping them improve their income and stabilize their lives.

With more than 4 hectares of fruit trees, including Soi Ha grapefruit, Dien grapefruit, wrinkled-leaf grapefruit, Phuc Trach, Da Xanh, and Cat Que, Vu Van Tuyen's family (Soi Dat village, Xuan Van commune, Yen Son district) earns over 600 million VND/year. Mr. Tuyen shared that in the past, due to lack of production experience, his family's crops often encountered pests and diseases, affecting productivity and quality. Through the Commune Farmers' Association, he was able to participate in training courses on tree care according to VietGAP standards, along with technology transfer courses, thanks to which his family's economic model developed stably.

Previously, Ms. Le Thi Trang's family (Tan Bien 2 village, Tien Bo commune, Yen Son district) was one of the poor households in the village due to lack of capital and land for cultivation. Through the labor export consultation conference held in the commune, her family boldly borrowed capital to invest in sending her son and daughter-in-law to work abroad in Taiwan. She shared that with stable jobs, her grandchildren send home an average of about 600 million VND per year. And after 8 years of working abroad, her family has built a spacious, fully-furnished three-story house. She also bought 3 hectares of land to plant forests and invested in raising over 100 bee colonies to develop the economy.

The family of Mr. Vu Van Tuyen or the family of Mrs. Le Thi Trang is just one of thousands of farmers and workers who have been trained and guided in their profession, contributing to the development of their family economy. Every year, the district has directed the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to coordinate with the People's Committees of communes and towns to review and make a list of workers who need to learn a profession; sign vocational training contracts for workers with vocational training institutions, such as: District Vocational Education Center - Continuing Education, Tuyen Quang Provincial College of Technology, Vietnam Farmers' Association Secondary School - Tuyen Quang Branch Vocational training organization associated with job creation, labor supply for businesses.

In the past 5 years, from 2021 to present, Yen Son district has opened 55 vocational training classes with 1,912 students. In addition, the district has also directed the district Agricultural Service Center to open over 30 technical transfer training classes each year for communes and towns. These efforts not only help poor households acquire new knowledge, but also contribute to increasing income and stabilizing life for themselves and their families.

In 2024, Yen Son district organized 06 job fairs in communes and towns.

Contribute to sustainable poverty reduction

Recognizing that vocational education is a key factor in improving the quality of human resources, the resolutions and projects of Yen Son district always take "Vocational training associated with job creation" as a breakthrough solution. In recent times, the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs of the district has actively advised the district People's Committee to issue many directive documents, implementing them quickly and resolutely.

Sharing about the locality's multidimensional and sustainable poverty reduction work, Vice Chairman of Yen Son District People's Committee, Le Quang Toan, said: Since the beginning of the year, Yen Son District has created jobs for over 4,310/4,370 workers, reaching 98.6% of the plan. Of which, 2,738 workers work in the province; 1,276 workers work in industrial parks in provinces and cities in the country, 296 workers work in foreign markets. 06 job fairs were organized in communes in the district, each attracting 300-700 workers, students and parents of workers to attend to find jobs. The National Target Program (NTP) for sustainable poverty reduction helps the poor and near-poor to fully access the State's support policies, rise up to escape poverty, and gradually eliminate the mindset of waiting and relying on the support of the Party, the State and the community.

Yen Son district identifies the National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction as a major and consistent policy of the Party and State; an important, regular and long-term political task of the entire political system and society. Therefore, the district has synchronously deployed and effectively implemented the National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction. Vice Chairman of the district, Le Quang Toan, added.

Yen Son District Vocational and Continuing Education Center opens a rattan and bamboo weaving class to help many poor ethnic minority households in My Bang commune earn extra income.

Support policies from the central and local levels have been implemented synchronously, creating conditions for workers, especially ethnic minority children, to participate in vocational training and improve their skills. The rate of trained workers reached 72%, of which 55% had degrees and certificates. After training, more than 80% of workers had jobs, helping to improve their income and stabilize their lives.

With 87 extremely disadvantaged and disadvantaged hamlets, Yen Son has focused on propaganda to change people's awareness and thinking about poverty reduction. The district always promotes propaganda and persuasion to arouse the spirit of self-reliance and the will to strive to rise up of poor households.

In 2024, the district invested more than 23.8 billion VND in the National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction, thereby supporting infrastructure development, diversifying livelihoods and improving agricultural production for disadvantaged communes, such as: Program to support female buffalo breeding, support breeding cows, support breeding goats, support breeding native black pigs... bringing many positive changes.

Along with that, social security policies, such as: Free health insurance cards, support for the elderly, the disabled, children... have been fully implemented, helping to reduce the poverty rate of the whole district from 15.04% to 12.1%. Hung Loi commune, the most difficult area, has also reduced the poverty rate from 58.4% to 47.8%.

In order to create a breakthrough to accelerate poverty reduction in the coming time, the People's Committee of Yen Son district assigned the target of reducing the multidimensional poverty rate by 2.8%/year, creating jobs for over 4,000 workers/year, along with key solutions to create income and sustainable livelihoods to help people escape poverty.

Yen Son (Tuyen Quang): Sustainable poverty reduction is a key and regular task.

Source: https://baodantoc.vn/chia-khoa-giam-ngheo-ben-vung-o-yen-son-1732113145036.htm