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Int’l aid to boost ethnic groups in Thua Thien-Hue

A 6 billion VND (282,000 USD) project, mainly funded by the Swedish Cooperative Centre, is helping ethnic groups in central Thua Thien-Hue province boost the development of agriculture and handicrafts.
A 6 billion VND (282,000 USD) project, mainly funded by the SwedishCooperative Centre, is helping ethnic groups in central ThuaThien-Hue province boost the development of agriculture and handicrafts.

The centre has donated 5.3 billion VND (249,100USD) to implement the project until 2015, with the remaining capitalsourced from the Thua Thien-Hue Hope Centre.

Theinitiative aims to raise the capacity of local ethnic groups in A Luoidistrict’s six communes to improve the production and trading ofhandicrafts as well as farming and breeding techniques.

It also aims to pilot environmentally-friendly farming and breedingmodels as well as create jobs and reduce poverty for local people.

In addition, Nordic Assistance to Vietnam ( NAV) also donated325 million VND (15,406 USD) in non-refundable aid to the province,with the view to raising the capacity to prevent and respond to naturaldisasters of local people.-VNA
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