(HBO)- Promoting the quality of "Uncle Ho's soldier" on a peaceful economic front, the Veterans Association of Yen Tri commune (Yen Thuy) always accompanies and creates the conditions for the cadres and the members to build the economic models, rising to be rightfully enriched, getting sustainable poverty reduction. In 2018, the average income of the members reached 32.5 million VND a year, the rate of the poor households decreased to 3.6%.


The model of breeding cows of the Veterans family, Mr. Nguyen Van Bien in Dong Tam hamlet.

The Veterans Association of Yen Tri commune has 412 members, taking part in the 14 branches’ activities. Determining the economic development as a key task of the associations, the veteran members actively propagate and mobilize their officials and members to change the way of thinking, the way of carrying the tasks, boldly changing the structure of plants and animals, applying scientific and technological advances into the production. They also utilize the available potentials and the advantages of the local area to promote the efficiency of the economic models, integrated breeding, citrus tree planting and service business. The whole commune currently has 5 farms, 3 businesses owned by veteran members with many effective breeding and farming models. Some households have income from 50-500 million VND a year. Typically, the veteran family members, Nguyen The Hung (A Dong village), Pham Van Nguyen (Yen Tien village), Bui Van Duc (neighbors Ao Hay) and so on.

Not only Mr. Bien, a lot of other veteran members in the whole Association have been facilitated to access the capital from the Social Policy Bank of the district with the debt of 5.6 billion VND. The association maintains 7 saving groups to help 260 households get loans for economic development. All levels of the Association actively propagated and mobilized their members to build fund with the amount of 500,000 VND per member a year to implement loan programs and social security activities. Besides, the commune’s Veterans Association has cooperated with other departments, branches and unions to organize training activities and transfer scientific and technological advances,  creating opportunities for the members to exchange and share experiences to support mutual development.

 

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