Monday, 06/01/2020 16:40 (GMT+7)
A program was recently organized by the Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and Fatherland Front of Thai Nguyen province to raise funds to support the poor over the Lunar New Year Festival (Tet).
Many units and individuals donate to support the poor (Photo: baothainguyen.vn)
The event aims to promote the good moral tradition of all classes of people, business community and entrepreneurs to join hands to help the poor and implement the national target program on sustainable poverty reduction.
At the program, the Organizing Committee announced the collection of over VND33 billion from units, organizations, businesses and benefactors to help the poor to have a warm Tet.
The beneficiaries are policy beneficiary families, revolutionary contributors in difficult circumstances, poor households, households near the poverty line in ethnic minority-inhabited areas, remote areas, ATK areas, and patients with serious illnesses being treated at hospitals in the province during the Lunar New Year of the Rat 2020.
In recent years, the hunger eradication and poverty reduction effort in Thai Nguyen province has achieved many positive results, the household poverty rate dropped sharply, from 13.4% in 2015 to 4.3% in 2019.
However, Thai Nguyen province still has over 14,400 poor households and over 21,300 households near the poverty line./.
BTA