Ms. Tran Thi Luol, Vinh Trach Dong commune, Bac Lieu city, lives in a temporary house with her two grandchildren. Ms. Luoi is eligible for support in the province's temporary house removal program. Although she has not yet built a new house, she was happy to hear the news: "Having a house to protect me from the sun and rain, I am extremely grateful to the government."
Ms. Danh Thi Hong Loan, Vinh Trach commune, Bac Lieu city, wishes to have a solid and sustainable house. The dream seemed impossible to realize, but now it has become a reality when her family was called by the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee to benefactors, sponsors, and support units to help with part of the cost, the government, organizations, and neighbors, helping with labor to build a new house.
Ms. Loan excitedly said: "Having a solid house to shelter my family from the rain and sun has always been my dream and also the motivation for me to work hard and produce."
In Phuoc Long district, from the beginning of 2024 to now, the entire Phuoc Long district has built 94 charity houses for poor and near-poor households facing housing difficulties.
Through review, Bac Lieu currently has 1,643 poor and near-poor households living in temporary and dilapidated houses that need to be built. To continue the task of supporting housing for poor and near-poor households, Chairman of Bac Lieu Provincial People's Committee Pham Van Thieu has sent an official dispatch to agencies, enterprises, organizations, groups and individuals in the province and outside the province to mobilize the implementation of the emulation movement "Join hands to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses" in the province.
The Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Lieu province emphasized: Due to the limited resources of the province, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee hope that agencies, enterprises, organizations, collectives and individuals inside and outside the province will support the province with more than 82 billion VND to build 1,643 houses (50 million VND/house) for poor and near-poor households who cannot build their own houses and to better implement the province's social security work. Call on units and enterprises to join hands in implementing social security work to contribute to effectively implementing the plan to reduce the poverty rate by 1% in 2024 in the province.
The Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Lieu province assigned provincial departments, branches, socio-political organizations, district and town People's Committees, banks and enterprises to help 2,273 poor households. 70 provincial departments, branches and enterprises sponsored 227 poor households, the rest were districts, towns and cities.
Chairman of Bac Lieu Provincial People's Committee Pham Van Thieu said: "The province will have specific and practical solutions to effectively solve social problems and better care for all aspects of people's lives. Eliminating temporary housing is a step, and in the near future, jobs will be created for people. Because only with jobs can poverty reduction be truly sustainable."
Bac Lieu also strives to reduce the average number of poor households to below 1% by the end of 2025. Of which, the rural area will reduce to below 2%; the urban area will reduce to below 1%; the poverty rate in ethnic minority areas will reduce by 1% each year...
