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Over 1.1 million poor households access preferential loans in 6 months
Updated: 08:37, 08/07/2019
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 (VPSP).
The loans also helped nearly 113,000 workers secure jobs and over 8,000 students pursue study, while assisting with the building of more than 760,000 rural clean water and sanitation facilities and 10,000 houses for policy beneficiaries.
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As of June 30, the VPSP’s total loan outstanding balance exceeded 198.5 trillion VND (8.5 billion USD).
Meanwhile, during the period, overdue debts hit 807 billion VND, making up 0.41 percent of the outstanding balance.
VBSP General Director Duong Quyet Thang urged VBSP units to focus on improving credit quality.
He also requested more assistance from local authorities toward the operations of VBSP units in a bid to increase resources helping people overcome poverty.
(BGO) – The Red Cross Society in the northern province of
Bac Giang and VinGroup’s Kind-Heart Foundation on May 13 co-hosted a programme
to provide free health examination, consultation and medicine in Son Dong
district to respond to the Humanitarian Month in 2019.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc decided to provide 404 tonnes of rice from national reserves for the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai during this year’s between-crop period.
A ceremony to present scholarships to 110 ethnic minority students and children of poor fishing families took place in the south-central province of Binh Dinh on March 28.
(BGO) – On March 27, the Fatherland Front Committee (FFC) in Bac Giang province coordinated with Hanoi Obstetrics & Gynecology Hospital to ink a deal to build the humanitarian houses for the especially difficult families in Yen The district.
For four years, Le Thi Binh and her husband tried to have a baby. But it was not until the couple received free in vitro fertilization (IVF) from a charity programme based in HCM City that their dream became a reality.
Source: VNA
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