Livelihood support helps people reduce poverty sustainably

Residential land and production land are prerequisites for ethnic minorities to stabilize their lives and escape poverty. Therefore, in recent years, the lives of ethnic minorities and mountainous areas in Lam Dong province have changed significantly, especially in stabilizing their residences and developing their livelihoods.

People in Lam Dong province use preferential capital from the State to develop production, livestock farming, and improve their lives. Photo: Minh Thu.

According to the report of the Lam Dong Provincial Ethnic Committee, for Project 1, to address the shortage of residential land, housing, production land, and domestic water, Lam Dong province aims to provide housing support for 301 households in 2024; support 8 works to provide centralized domestic water for 406 households, distributed domestic water for 706 households, and change jobs for 1,574 households.

In the first 9 months of 2024, the total capital allocated to implement the National Target Program 1719 in 2024 in the province is more than 268 billion VND. This budget is allocated according to Decision No. 2471 dated December 11, 2023 and Decision No. 2571 dated December 22, 2023 of Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee, including career capital of more than 100 billion VND; investment capital of more than 168 billion VND along with 20 billion VND of preferential credit capital. Of which, Project 1 has been allocated a total of more than 31 billion VND.

One of the localities that has implemented ethnic policies well is Lam Ha district. The whole district has implemented the National Target Program 1719 to solve the housing problem for 29 ethnic minority households, of which the district's Social Policy Bank has provided loans of more than 1 billion VND to 26 households. In addition to housing support, the district is also completing a number of centralized water supply projects, reaching 90% progress.

Mr. Hoang Son - Chairman of the Lam Ha District Fatherland Front Committee said that the district has made efforts to effectively use investment capital sources, ensuring that projects are focused on key areas and not spread out. In addition, the district is also one of the localities that has done a good job of effectively replicating economic development models among ethnic minorities.

Specifically, the district has implemented a livelihood project to support 185 ethnic minority and poor households to implement the mulberry and silkworm farming model in 7 communes and towns with ethnic minorities in the locality. The model was implemented in August 2022. From the livelihood support fund for 2022 - 2023, up to now, the whole district has had 41 households escape poverty, 26 households escape near poverty, the mulberry and silkworm farming area increased by 27.9 hectares compared to the area registered for support in 2022.

In Di Linh district, the district is also actively implementing Project 1 to support housing construction for poor ethnic minority households from the Program's capital. The project is implemented in 5 communes: Dinh Trang Thuong, Gung Re, Dinh Trang Hoa, Bao Thuan and Tan Nghia to solve the shortage of residential land and production land for the people. In addition, to improve the lives of ethnic minorities, Di Linh district has approved a concentrated settlement area in R'Hang Ploi residential area, Hang Lang village, Gung Re commune. This area has a total area of ​​20 hectares, expected to serve 87 households with a total of 435 people. The construction of this settlement area not only helps solve the housing problem but also creates favorable conditions for people to develop production and stabilize their lives.

According to Mr. Bon Yo Soan - Vice Chairman of the Lam Dong Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, implementing ethnic policies well and supporting appropriate livelihoods is a solution to help people sustainably reduce poverty. Therefore, the Lam Dong Provincial Fatherland Front has organized work with localities and related sectors to survey and develop a plan for the Project to support livelihood models for poor and near-poor households. Through implementation, it has been shown that supporting livelihoods and creating jobs for the poor in ethnic minority areas has received attention and created favorable conditions from Party committees, authorities, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, and mass organizations from the province to the grassroots. This is the way for localities to make a breakthrough in promoting people's ownership associated with sustainable poverty reduction among ethnic minorities in the locality.

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