Senior women in rural and ethnic minority areas are considered an abundant labour workforce, as people in the working age have often worked far away from home in recent years. Therefore, many units, departments, sectors and cooperatives in Hoa Binh have worked with enterprises inside and outside the province to generate jobs for the local women.
Luong Phu agricultural service cooperative in Tan Lac
district sign an order on handicraft making to create jobs for 600 local
labourers.
Nguyen Thi Bay, Director of the Luong Phu agricultural service cooperative,
said the local ethnic female workforce is quite abundant. Most of the women
live by farming. They look for jobs in off-season days. Although they are out
of the working age and can not work far away, they are still capable of
working.
"Our cooperative is seeking orders on handicraft making to create jobs and
incomes for them. Currently, the cooperative is generating jobs for 600
labourers with 90% of whom are ethnic women," Bay said.
Brocade weaving is a traditional profession of local residents of many
generationsin in Mai Chau district. Over the years, brocade weaving
cooperatives have been created jobs for many ethnic women.
Ha Thi Xien, a resident of Chieng Chau commune's Chieng Chau hamlet, shared
that although she is out of the working age but she is still in the pink of
health.
"I have more free time after finishing daily domestic work. Many local
women in the commune like me. I found a job suitable for my health," she
said. Work at the Hoa Ban brocade weaving cooperative in Chieng Chau generates
a stable income for Xien. She expressed her hope that many units and businesses
will have more orders and a variety of products suitable for women in the same
age group with her, thus helping stabilise their lives while preseving the
traditional trade.
In addition to brocade weaving, many trades have been promoted at local
cooperatives such as aloe vera planting, for-export handicraft making and pig
raising, among others, helping generate incomes while stabilising lives for
local senior ethnic women.
A workshop on promoting the role of reputable individuals and religious dignitaries in popularising and promoting gender equality in ethnic minorities and mountainous areas was held by the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) in Hoa Binh province on July 16.
Hoa Binh province has 145 out of the 151 communes, wards, and towns which are ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas, 506 communes facing extreme difficulties, and more than 74% of its population being ethnic minority people.
Creating on-site jobs for rural women lies in the heart of the operation of the Women's Union of Lac Thinh commune in Yen Thuy district. Bui Thi Tien, 44, of the Muong ethnic group, a member of the women's union of Sau hamlet in Lac Thinh commune, has boldly sought and created jobs for many women to increase their income and improve their families' living standards.
Defining socio-economic development and effective implementation of policies on ethnic affairs in the locality has been a continuous and crucial task during 2019-2024 period, the Party Committee and People's Committee of Cao Phong district have focused on leadership in executing these tasks, achieving positive results. The material and spiritual lives of people in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas have gradually improved while rural area has gained a face-lift.
Hoa Binh’s education and training sector is implementing concerted measures to better the quality of education and training, proactively implementing the national target programme on new rural area building.
Family is the home of each person and the cell of a society. It also plays a significant role in the formation and development of each person’s personality. On May 4, 2001, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 72/2001/QD-TTg, designating June 28 as the Vietnamese Family Day. Over the past years, Hoa Binh province has carried out a number of activities to honour the family traditions and help develop prosperous, progressive, equal, happy "cells of society”.
