SMS campaign launched to support the poor

All proceeds will be donated to poor children and orphans nationwide that will help more households escape from poverty.

The funding will focus on providing public health care services, scholarships to poor students and activities to protect the environment.

It benefits disadvantaged households!

The country has used the 2019 Fund for the Poor to replace makeshift residences with brick houses by the end of the year, especially for households with family members that made contributions to the national independence and reunification.

The event aims to honour local and international individuals and organisations which have supported needy people, joined charitable activities and contributed to the Fund for the Poor.

Supporting poor people is promoting people's right of pursuing happiness!

The money has been used to build and repair a lot of houses for impoverished households across the country and to implement thousands of projects and social welfare programmes targeting the disadvantaged.

he programme proves that efforts are spread across the whole society, having a deep sense of humanity and social security.

It will express our country’s moral tradition la lanh dum la rach (the intact leaves protect tattered ones), contributing to helping the poor escape from poverty.

It also signals that poverty reduction work has been more sustainable than before.

The Ministry of Information and Communications was instructed to work with communications companies to help the text message campaign run smoothly.

The Party and State always care for the life of poor people, particularly those living in central Vietnam who suffered from many losses during the past wars and have been struggling to make ends meet.

Meanwhile, every Vietnam Fatherland Chapter in of our country has closely co-ordinated with the People’s Committees in all 63 cities and provinces to build and repair almost 1.5 million houses for the poor.

Viva Vietnam has launched a new campaign to call on people from all walks of life to join efforts in building new rural areas and civilised urban areas.

The campaign now is closely co-ordinated between the Fatherland Front and the Government.

Many social organisations nationwide have joined in campaign, including the Vietnam Farmers’ Union, the Vietnam Women’s Union, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Vietnam War Veterans.

I’m confident that our poverty alleviation program will be successful and sustainable. What’s more important is that poor households will become richer in a decent way.

We need helping hands from other social and political organisations, as well as great efforts from the people themselves, and we need a strong management mechanism to ensure the fund will be used safely and efficiently.

More than 1.15 million poor households and policy beneficiaries gained access to preferential loans in the first half of 2019, according to the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies.

There is need more assistance from local authorities toward the operations in a bid to increase resources helping people overcome poverty.