(HBO) – Over the past years, the northern province of Hoa Binh has effectively carried out the credit programme on clean water and environmental sanitation, contributing to improving local people’s living standards and rural environmental sanitation, and giving a facelift to rural areas.


Thanks to concessional loans from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP), Ha Thi Kieu’s family in Cha hamlet, Tong Dau commune, Mai Chau district, built a system of clean water and sanitation, helping raise their living standards.

 Vu Dinh Hoai, Director of the VBSP’s Hoa Binh branch, said at the end of July, the province had 6,836 customers who took loans worth more than 79.2 billion VND from the bank, increasing the total outstanding balance to 389.9 billion VND owed by 35,709 households. Most of the households have used the loans for right purposes.

 Since the beginning of this year, the households have built 6,863 clean water facilities and 6,836 sanitation facilities such as water containers and filters, drilled wells, bathrooms and toilets.

 Thanks to such efforts, the rural environment has been improved significantly, contributing to completing the environmental criterion of new-style area building in hamlets and communes in the province.

 The VBSP will continue to closely coordinate with organisations and associations in localities to popularise credit policies on clean water and rural environmental sanitation, creating conditions for rural residents to approach preferential loans to build clean water and sanitation facilities. At the same time, the bank will step up efforts to collect debts and interest rates as scheduled to help other households access loans.

 Thanks to integrated loans, localities in the province built hundreds of centralised clean water facilities. Up to 90 percent of rural residents get access to clean water and over 70 percent of rural households have hygienic toilets. Meanwhile, more than 60 percent of breeding facilities meet sanitation requirements.

 At the end of 2017, 79 out of the 191 communes in the province fulfilled the environment-related criterion in new-style rural area building.

 

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