Many mountainous districts in the central province of Thanh Hoa are investing heavily in infrastructure to promote socio-economic growth, thereby giving local residents conditions to develop livelihoods and escape from poverty.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MoIT), the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), The Nippon Foundation (TNF) and Save the Children (SC) on March 21 launched a project to support education for children from ethnic minorities and kids with disabilities in Vietnam.
More than 110 million USD will be spent on developing a grassroots healthcare network in disadvantaged areas in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health announced at the conference to launch Phase I of the healthcare development programme on December 5.
The Hanoi People's Committee has isued a plan for the implementation of the project to improve healthcare, health, and stature of ethnic minorities and prevent child malnutrition prevention.
Many students in Din Chin – one of the poorest, most remote communes in Muong Khuong district, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, consider teacher Lo Thi Lan a second mother thanks to her dedication.
PetroVietnam Gas (PV GAS) recently handed over the first secondary school built in Thanh Tung commune, Thanh Chuong district, in north-central Nghe An province to local authorities for management and use.
Over 209,000 households in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai have benefited from Programme 135, a government programme for the most vulnerable communes in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, in the 2011-2020 period , which had total budget of 1.63 trillion VND (69.8 million USD).
The National Assembly debated an overall plan on socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited, mountainous and extremely disadvantaged areas, during a plenary sitting in Hanoi on November 1, the 10th day of sitting of the ongoing eighth session.
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on June 20 approved an 80-million-USD loan to help Vietnam improve basic health service quality and access, especially in disadvantaged areas.
A ceremony was held in Hanoi on December 18 to see off 14 freshly-graduated doctors of the Hanoi Medical University (HMU) to work in Vietnam’s mountainous and remote areas.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved 100.6 million USD in financing to support the Vietnamese Government’s reform effort to improve health service delivery and the quality of health care providers, especially in poor, border areas.
The multidimensional approach to poverty, which has been adopted by Vietnam for nearly three years, have produced encouraging results, reflected in remarkable improvement in living conditions in disadvantaged areas.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a national target programme on education for ethnic minority, mountainous and disadvantaged areas across the country between 2016 and 2020.
Vietnam has been making great strides to move from malaria control towards elimination of the disease, but increasing malaria in disadvantaged areas is threatening the country’s overall progress.
The VCCI wants member countries of the International Organisation of the Francophone (OIF) to increase economic cooperation with Vietnam, said to Hoang Quang Phong, VCCI Vice President.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) to improve the quality of vocational training, describing this as a key to escape the middle-income trap.
Sixty two poor districts across the country lack a total of almost 600 doctors with specialisations in 15 different areas, including obstetrics, paediatrics, emergencies and infectious diseases.
The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong will upgrade 20 medical stations and build three new ones in disadvantaged areas with a total investment of 20.5 billion VND (880,000 USD).
Thirty six needy ethnic minority households in Bu Dop district, the southern province of Binh Phuoc, have been given breeding cows, helping them improve their livelihood.
