Returning to the flood epicenter of Ha Trang Tay village, there are still scattered "traces" of the flood on the walls of houses, trees and eroded irrigation works. Right at the beginning of the village, there is a house under construction, upon asking, it is the house of Mr. Chiu Van Dung (43 years old), Dao ethnic group. This is the most severely affected household in the village when the entire house was swept away. Fortunately, thanks to the support of the local government, the mobilization of benefactors to help, and the people joining hands and contributing, Mr. Dung's family was able to rebuild a new house on the old foundation.
“We built the house but we almost never hired outsiders. Our brothers and neighbors came to help, each one giving a hand. It was economical, emotional, and also a sense of responsibility, village love, and neighborliness,” Dung shared.
Recalling the days when storm No. 3 made landfall, Ms. Nong Thi Tham, Head of Ha Trang Tay village, said that when she received news that the flood was coming, the entire village lost power and phone signal... she quickly rode her motorbike to each house to inform the villagers to proactively evacuate their lives and property.
“Hearing the news, every household quickly and urgently cleaned up their belongings. When a house was finished, they ran to help their neighbors. Men and young people in the village also went to families with elderly people and children to help move them in time,” Ms. Tham recounted.
According to preliminary statistics from the People's Committee of Dong Hai Commune, the damage after the storm was very serious. The whole commune has more than 900 hectares of forestry land, mainly acacia trees from 2 to 5 years old, which were severely damaged. In addition, about 400 households were flooded, losing property, crops, and livestock, with total estimated damage of more than 100 billion VND. In addition, 6 houses had their roofs almost completely blown off, but fortunately there were no casualties.
Mr. Thang Van Thong, Secretary and Head of Na Bac village, said: “After the storm, along with carrying out statistics on agricultural and forestry damage to promptly support people, we also deployed and mobilized people to spend money to restore model gardens and vegetable growing models, and production is now stable. As for houses, people are gradually repairing them.”
Talking with Mr. Nguyen Van Hiep, Vice Chairman of Dong Hai Commune People's Committee, it is known that Quang Ninh province has declared an emergency natural disaster situation and assigned the Eastern Irrigation Company to propose the earliest implementation plan so that people have water sources for winter-spring crop production. As for Dong Hai Commune Government, it has also planned to introduce new plant varieties for the fastest reproduction, avoiding the appearance of poor and disadvantaged households in the area:
“In the future, Dong Hai will guide people to grow more cassava on a part of the damaged forest land. The commune has also worked with a business, they have committed to purchasing for people. Because cassava is also short-term, production can be restored within a year. Banks, especially social policy banks, have also deferred and extended debt depending on each subject and have a new lending mechanism so that people can soon stabilize and restore the economy,” Mr. Hiep shared.
Dong Hai village has returned to its normal life, with new houses built with the joint efforts of all levels, sectors and neighbors, and with green vegetable beds growing on the land that had just been buried and swept away by the flood...
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