VFF Month of Action for Poor 2016 launched

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee and the Central Mobilisation Board for the Fund for the Poor launched the Month of Action for the Poor on October 17.

The launching ceremony was attended by Politburo members, including President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan and Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue, who is Head of the Steering Committee of the National Target Program on building new-style rural areas.

 

Speaking at the launching ceremony, VFF President Nguyen Thien Nhan called on ministries, departments, organisations, individuals, businesses at home and abroad and overseas Vietnamese to continue contributing to the “Fund for the Poor” and supporting social welfare programmes to help the poor and those living in disadvantaged areas to escape poverty.

 

The Party and State continued to pursue a strategy of developing the economy in conjunction with social progress and equality, thereby creating conditions and an environment in which for the people to develop their production and enrich themselves while contributing to the national construction and defence, he said.

 

He also took the occasion to thank organisations, individuals, benefactors, overseas Vietnamese and international friends for their kind support for the campaign in past years.

 

According to statistics, in the first nine months of this year, individuals and organisations at home and abroad donated nearly VND1 trillion to the Fund for the Poor and VND2.5 trillion to the social welfare programmes.

 

They also contributed to the construction and repair of over 34,400 houses for the poor and provided financial support to 149,400 needy households.

 

Since the launch of the campaign fifteen years ago, the National Fund for the Poor has collected over VND11trillion while the fund has mobilised VND31 trillion.

 

At the ceremony, organisations and enterprises pledged to donate VND348 billion to the “Fund for the Poor.”

 

(Source: NDO)