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NGO builds 25 houses in flood-prone Mekong province

Non-governmental organisation Habitat for Humanity (HFH) Vietnam has kicked off a project to build 25 houses for disadvantaged families in flood-prone areas in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang .
Non-governmental organisation Habitat for Humanity (HFH) Vietnam haskicked off a project to build 25 houses for disadvantaged families inflood-prone areas in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang .

According to Tuoitrenews, the ‘Mekong Big Builds’ project is hosted byHFH Vietnam and its local government partners with the participation of200 volunteers from New Zealand, the US, Japan, China, the UK,Australia, Singapore and Vietnam. They will build up to 25 houses duringthe week of August 4-10.

The houses are estimated tocost around 50 million VND (2,400 USD) each. Habitat for HumanityVietnam will finance 40 million VND of the cost of each home while thelocal government partners and future homeowners together will contributethe remaining 10 million VND.

The future homeownerswill be building their own homes side-by-side the internationalvolunteers who will live and work for a week amidst the quaint andsparsely populated Mekong Delta farming community.

TheMekong Big Builds is part of the regional Habitat for Humanityinitiative and will take place again in Cambodia in November thisyear.

Speaking at a ceremony to kickstart theprogramme held in Tien Giang on July 1, Vo Thi Tuyet, Secretary Generalof Tien Giang Union of Friendship Organisations said that pre-buildingpreparations and budgets are completed and the families and volunteersare ready to start building.

Habitat for HumanityVietnam began operations in 2001 in the central city of Da Nang toprovide low cost housing, water and sanitation solutions to marginalisedhouseholds. HFH Vietnam has implemented projects in more than tenprovinces across the country to date.-VNA
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