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Tien Giang to step up sustainable poverty reduction

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang will work to reduce its poverty rate from 4.02 percent to 3.69 percent in 2018.
Tien Giang to step up sustainable poverty reduction ảnh 1Illustrative photo (Source: VNA)

Tien Giang (VNA) - The Mekong Delta province ofTien Giang will work to reduce its poverty rate from 4.02 percent to 3.69percent in 2018.

According to Deputy Director of the provincial Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Van Lam, Tien Giang will implement a seriesof measures, such as adding vocational training part in preferential lendingschemes to help poor residents secure livelihoods.

The province will continue mobilising communal support andraising funds for the poor, while the implementation of social-economicdevelopment plans that include sustainable poverty reduction will be undertighter monitoring.

Relevant agencies have been assigned to examine the number andconditions of poor households and design poverty eradication schemes suitableto each locality to help the targeted group improve incomes and access basicsocial services.

More investments will be put in developing infrastructurefor extremely poor communes in coastal areas and Tan Phu Dong district.

Lam said communications campaign to raise public awarenesson poverty reduction policy and models is set to be intensified this year.

By the end of 2017, Tien Giang had close to 19,000 poorhouseholds.-VNA
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