(HBO) - Giap Dat is a heavily disadvantaged commune in Da Bac district. It houses eight hamlets and 501 households of four ethnic groups. The Tay and Dao ethnic groups account for 81.5 percent and 15.6 percent of the commune’s total population, respectively. Local people mainly depend on agricultural production, which has been facing various difficulties; hence the high rate of poor households. By the end of 2018, the rate was 46.67 percent.
Representative of a poor family in Dat 4 hamlet, Giap Dat commune (Da
Bac), receives breeding cows from a charity programme.
In the past years, with support
from different development projetcs, particularly Program 135, Giap Dat’s socio-economic
growth has progressed. Under a programme on assisting production development in
2017 and 2018, 28 local poor families were assigned to take care of seven
breeding cows.
Giap Dat has also received
capital to invest in local socio-economic infrastructure projects, including an
800m road leading to the Suoi Cuom production area and a 150m canal in Dat 3
hamlet. The road project cost a total of 927 million VND, of which local people
donated 27 million VND. The figures for the canal project were 500 million VND
and 50 million VND, respectively. Local people also contributed hundreds of
working days to both projects.
In addition, following the motto "the State
and people work together", the commune has maintained and repaired sewers
and roads in Dat 4 hamlet as well as the Na Ria ditche in Dat 3 hamlet. It has
also implemented a production support programme, providing nearly 70,000 saplings
of wood trees to 56 poor households of four hamlets – Dat 1, 2, 3 and 5.
In October, Nguyen Van Thuy, a primary school teacher at Hung Son Primary and Secondary School in Luong Son town, Luong Son district, was one of three Vietnamese representatives to receive the Inspiring Teacher Award at the Asia-Pacific Cha-Ching Financial Accreditation (CCFA) Teacher Conference for the 2023-2024 academic year.
The Women’s Union of Hoa Binh province has carried out various measures to promote gender equality over the recent past, seeing it as the key to eliminating violence against women and girls.
A delegation from Hoa Binh province, led by Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Chuong, recently had a working session with leaders from Thai Nguyen University’s branch in Ha Giang province.
In order to improve the quality of medical examination, treatment and disease prevention, in recent years, the health sector of Hoa Binh province has always focused on improving the quality of its human resources so as to provide better health care for the people.
On the afternoon of November 22, at Hoang Van Thu High School for the Gifted, the Hoa Binh Provincial Youth Union held a summary and awarding ceremony for the Second Online English Singing Contest in Hoa Binh Province in 2024 and organized a training session for provincial English volunteer teachers.
