(HBO) – A poverty reduction project has been assisting local people in Tu Do commune, Lac Son district, to improve their livelihoods.

Anyone who once visited Tu Do commune shared the same view on how low-developed the commune was and how hard to get there as roads were rough.

However, the project has brought changes. Roads to hamlets have been asphalted and a number of irrigation works have been built to support locals’ farming activities. Water supply facilities using water resources from forests have been installed in residential areas.


 The project has enabled women in Sat Thuong village to preserve their traditional brocade weaving craft, making it a tourist product to improve their families’ incomes. 

The family of Bui Van Nhuan in Chen village is one of the 17 poverty-ridden households that have been taking part in raising honeybees, an activity of the sub-project 2.1, since 2016.


With the initial aid worth 4 million VND for buying bee breeds, Nhuan has developed four beehives. Being raised naturally, the bees give high-quality honey with special aroma and sweetness, which is being sold for 200,000 VND per liter. He collected 30 liters of honey, which is equivalent to 6 million VND.

A group of brocade weavers in the village received a financial aid worth 42 million VND in 2012 to buy weaving tools together with technical assistance. The group have so far earned 9-10 million VND a month on average, which enabled its members to make up for around a half of their family’s income. 

Statistics show, the commune has 40 groups formed to engage in the project. The groups see the involvement of 558 households out of the total 559 households.

All poor households participating have benefited from at least one of the sub-projects, which involve such trades as bee raising, the breeding of pigs and cow, and the production of brocades.

The groups have used their income to reinvest in the trade involved and also cover their family expenses.

Bui Ngoc Thien, Chairman of the Tu Do Commune People’s Committee said together with the Vietnam Fatherland Front-initiated new rural area building programme and the Programme 135, the poverty reduction project has accelerated the effort to eliminate poverty in the locality.

The project has had 118 big and small activities costing over 16 billion VND. Locals’ average income expanded by 136 percent, from 5.8 million VND in 2010 to 13.7 million VND in 2016, he said./.

                                                                                          Bui Minh


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