The Ministry of Information and Communications, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the standing board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, launched a text message campaign on August 17 to pool support for the impoverished nationwide.
The campaign, entitled “Join hands for the poor”, is part of the activities to realise the nation’s sustainable poverty alleviation, and respond to the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the Day for the Poor in Vietnam (October 17).
Supporters can join the programme by texting “VNN n” to 1407 from 00:00 of August 19 to 24:00 of December 31. Each mobile text message will contribute at least 20,000 VND (0.86 USD) to the impoverished.
For more detailed information, participants can call 19001530 or access the website 1400.vn.
The money raised from the campaign will be used to help the poor residing in areas facing special socio-economic difficulties, and ethnic minority groups.
The programme is scheduled at the Cultural Friendship Palace at No.91 Tran Hung Dao Street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi, and will be broadcast live on VTV1.
According to the multi-dimensional poverty standards during 2016-2020, Vietnam is now home to 1.3 million impoverished households, or 5.23 percent of the total population, and more than 1.23 million near-poor households who need help to stabilise livelihoods.
During 2016-2018, some 13.8 billion VND (595,400 USD) was mobilised by SMS campaigns through the National Humanitarian Portal 1400./.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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