Rapid and sustainable poverty alleviation
| Resolution 30a/2008/NQ-CP dated 27 December 2008 of the Government promulgating a program to support rapid and sustainable poverty alleviation for 61 poor districts; accordingly, EVN has been requested to support 3 districts of Phong Tho, Than Uyen and Tan Uyen (Lai Chau province). |
Program 30a has been realized by EVN in Lai Chau province with great success. The Group has supported 3 districts of Than Uyen, Tan Uyen, Phong Tho with many activities such as: Developing rural electricity grids; eradicating temporary houses; building semi-boarding houses, kindergartens, boarding and semi-boarding schools; supporting training and job placement; cementing rural roads; training agricultural and forestry extension, supporting agricultural production models, etc.
EVN's companionship over the past 10 years has contributed to improving the living and production conditions of people in rural, isolated, remote, and ethnic minority areas.
Rural roads in villages and hamlets in Muong Mit commune, Than Uyen district, are cemented with EVN’s assistance, helping people to travel conveniently and effectively serving trade activities.
The program to support 3 poor districts Than Uyen, Tan Uyen and Phong Tho under Resolution 30a has been implemented by EVN since 2009. EVN has coordinated with the People's Committee of Lai Chau province, the People's Committees of Tan Uyen, Than Uyen, and Phong Tho districts in surveying situation, support needs, studied and proposed support activities in order to create changes for rapid poverty alleviation and sustainable development on the basis of EVN's strengths and in accordance with characteristics and needs of each district and local people in each period.
Improving living conditions of people in remote areas
Mrs. Deo Thi Chan (Nam Cay village, Khang Then commune, Phong Tho district) recalled the joy of receiving a new house supported by EVN in 2009
According to Mr. Mai Tong Giang, Director of Huoi Quang - Ban Chat Hydropower Company, the company received 19 employees who were children of policy families and poor local households after they graduated from the Northern Power College. After that, the company trained them from 6 months to 1 year so that they could understand the operation process. Currently, they all meet job requirements and become operating and maintenance workers.
Program 30a supported by EVN with many activities has contributed to improving living conditions of local people, especially poor households in rural, remote and isolated areas in 3 districts of Than Uyen, Uyen, Phong Tho. Typically, the rural power grid development program has contributed to "clearing hollow areas" in electricity supply, positively affected the transformation of economic structure and labor structure in agriculture. People can rest assured to invest in processing machinery, develop production in the direction of non-agriculture, increase family income, and reduce poverty in a sustainable manner.
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Outstanding activities in EVN's Program 30a in Lai Chau:
- Supporting the development of rural electricity grid, with focus on unelectrified communes, villages and households, with a total investment cost of over VND 848 billion, bringing Lai Chau, the province with the lowest percentage of electrified households in the country (only 37% of communes and 29.4% of households being electrified in 2009), to reach 100% of communes having grid-connected electricity in 2015 and by 2021, the percentage of electrified households is 97.04 %, fulfilling the target of the Resolution of the 14th Lai Chau Provincial Party Congress for the term 2021-2025.
- Supporting eradicating 2,511 temporary houses, with a total cost of VND 13.115 billion.
- Supporting building 56 "semi-boarding houses" with a total cost of VND 28.6 billion.
- Supporting building 24 kindergartens and preschools in the center of communes, with a total cost of VND 21.1 billion.
- Supporting building 4 schools in Tan Uyen and Phong Tho districts with a total cost of VND 40.8 billion.
- Supporting in training and job placement for 59 students who are children of poor households and policy households and meet standards of educational attainment.
- Financial support to buy and supply 6,749 tons of cement to build 72.7km of village roads in communes to build new countryside at a total cost of VND 12.76 billion.
- Training on agricultural and forestry extension, supporting agricultural production models with a budget of VND 9.5 billion.
- Other supports: implementing medical support activities, donating essential items for semi-boarding students, guiding poor households, ethnic minority households and resettled households to use electricity safely and economically, etc.
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It can be said that, with great resources and high determination, Vietnam Electricity has effectively implemented Program 30a in 3 districts of Than Uyen, Tan Uyen and Phong Tho (Lai Chau province), helping localities reduce poverty rapidly and sustainably, improve the quality of education, and improve the people's material and spiritual life.