Lang Son (VNA) – Lizen Joint Stock Company, which is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, on November 7 presented more than 2.4 billion VND (94,618 USD) to Chi Lang district in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son to support 22 local families in building new houses, replacing their temporary and dilapidated ones.
Chi Lang's leaders commended the firm’s assistance, which contributes to implementing the province’s scheme to repair and build homes for revolution contributors, policy beneficiary families, poor and near-poor households, and those affected by natural disasters and climate change in the locality.
Currently, 135 families in Chi Lang have still lived in temporary or dilapidated houses, of them 22 in need of rebuilding, with the total funding for the construction estimated at 15 billion VND.
Responding to the province’s call, businesses there have committed to donate 160 billion VND to its housing scheme.
As of November 3, Lang Son had received 76.5 billion VND in both cash and kind from 101 organisations and individuals. To date, it has built 13 new houses for needy households./.
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