Dong Hy (Thai Nguyen): Paying attention to supporting ethnic minorities to stabilize their lives and escape poverty

Ethnic minorities renovate mixed gardens, reclaim hills and fields to grow tea, thereby earning more income.

Mr. Vu Xuan Thai, Head of the Ethnic Affairs Department of Dong Hy district, said: Identifying sustainable poverty reduction in ethnic minority areas as one of the important tasks, in recent years Dong Hy district has mobilized the participation of the entire political system; done a good job of propaganda, persuasion and persuasion to change the thinking, awareness and actions of the people, thereby promoting the spirit of self-reliance, proactive efforts to escape poverty; receiving and effectively using the State's support policies and resources...

Implementing the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas, in 2022, Van Lang Commune, Dong Hy District will invest in two resettlement areas: Ban Ten Hamlet (30 households) and Lien Phuong Hamlet (35 households). These are two resettlement areas for Mong households living in high mountains, 15 to 20km from the commune center. Many households do not have land to live in, so they have to build houses next to streams and rocky mountains, which pose a potential risk of insecurity when landslides and flash floods occur. In addition, households live scattered, far from the hamlet center and schools, so it is difficult for the locality to invest in building roads, schools, and power lines in the old residential area.

The investment cost for these two resettlement areas is over 32.8 billion VND, of which the central budget is approximately 28.6 billion VND; the provincial budget is nearly 2.9 billion VND, the rest is taken from the district budget. Currently, both resettlement areas have completed site clearance and started to build the first items. Investing in resettlement areas is very practical, helping ethnic minorities settle down, find jobs, and have the conditions to escape poverty...

An orientation session, introducing jobs for ethnic minorities

Also in 2023, along with paying attention to stabilizing people's lives, from the central and local budgets, Dong Hy district has also invested in building, renovating and repairing 40 works belonging to projects and sub-projects under the National Target Program 1719. At the same time, to help people stabilize their lives, the district also focuses on promoting vocational training, career orientation, job referrals, housing support, health insurance cards, and support for study costs... for ethnic minorities.

At the propaganda and career counseling sessions, in addition to accessing information about the labor market, jobs, and labor recruitment needs to work abroad, people also heard about contents and topics such as: Career counseling, orientation, start-ups, developing local strengths; Transforming agricultural production thinking into agricultural economic thinking; Current situation and solutions for careers and jobs of ethnic minority youth...

Vocational training and job creation for the poor are focused on creating conditions for working-age workers from poor and near-poor households who are ethnic minorities with cultural qualifications, good health, and the need to learn a trade or change their profession to learn a suitable trade. After learning a trade, vocational training units will introduce them to jobs or create their own jobs to have a stable income, improve their lives, and gradually escape poverty sustainably.

Poor ethnic minorities in Thai Nguyen province always receive attention and favorable conditions from all levels and sectors to develop their economy.

From 2022 to present, Dong Hy District People's Committee has coordinated with the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of the province to organize 2 days of Job Fair in the district. At the fair, 36 business units were connected to provide consultation and recruitment for nearly 2,000 ethnic minority workers. Participants received information on the labor market, job counseling and career orientation. From 2022 to present, the district has organized 17 vocational training classes for over 500 rural workers. At the end of the training class, 100/100 students were granted vocational certificates, and after training, 80% of students had jobs.

Accordingly, such orientation and job introduction activities have provided timely and complete guidelines and policies of the Party and the State, raising awareness of people and workers about labor and employment. From there, creating conditions for people to directly contact businesses, cooperatives, organizations and individuals to orient and choose careers and jobs suitable to their own and their family's conditions.

Thanks to the drastic solutions mentioned above, up to now, the life of ethnic minorities in Dong Hy district has had positive changes. According to the multidimensional poverty standard applied for the period 2022 - 2025, in Dong Hy district, there are 2,814 poor households of ethnic minorities/12,644 households, accounting for 22.24%; Up to now, the number of multidimensional poor households of ethnic minorities in the district has decreased to 1,816 households/11,560, accounting for 15.71%. In 2 years, in Dong Hy district, 998 multidimensional poor households of ethnic minorities have decreased, equivalent to 8.38%, exceeding the set plan (3%/year). Specifically, in 2022, 365 multidimensional poor households of ethnic minorities have decreased, equivalent to 2.89%; In 2023, 634 multidimensional poor households of ethnic minorities have decreased, equivalent to 5.49%...

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