At Hoa Binh city, Hoa Binh province, the launching ceremony of the Campaign to increase access to family planning services in ethnic minority and mountainous provinces with high fertility rates took place.
A promotional parade on the streets of Hoa Binh city to propagate.
33 provinces and cities have high birth rates, difficult economic conditions and limited quality of human resources. Hoa Binh is one of 33 provinces and cities on the list. The entire province has a population of nearly 900 thousand people. In which, the Muong ethnic group accounts for over 63%; 87 communes of region II and region III. The province has been actively implementing the provision of family planning services on all 3 channels: free, social marketing and socialization.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van Toan called on all officials, civil servants, public employees and people of Hoa Binh province to continue to thoroughly grasp fertility reduction, strive to achieve and maintain replacement fertility levels.
After the launching ceremony, a parade took place on the streets of Hoa Binh city to propagate the Campaign to increase access to family planning services.
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”.
