Water leading pipes constructed (Photo: VNA)According to Nguyen Thanh Duoc, Deputy Director of the provincial Centre for Safe Water and Rural Environmental Hygiene, so far, the centre has invested in 151 concentrated rural water supply projects with overall length of some 1.65 million metres, providing safe water to more than 93,000 rural families, 50% being Khmer ethnic minority people. As a result, as of late 2017, 51% of rural families, or over 132,000 rural families, had access to safe water. So far concentrated water supply works have been built in 87% of communes, and the rest are expected to be completed by 2020. To ensure that all rural residents have safe water to use, the provincial Centre for Safe Water and Rural Environmental Hygiene has called on investment in building and expanding safe water supply networks, providing water to those in remote and disadvantaged regions. Additionally, it has worked with providers to transfer water refining technology to those locations … [Read more...] about Safe water provided for Khmer ethnic minority people
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Tuyen Quang: over 116 billion VND allocated to ethnic minorities
Illustrative image (Source: baotuyenquang.com.vn) Tuyen Quang (VNA) – The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has decided to invest over 116 billion VND (5.1 million USD) in 2018 to help people in specially disadvantaged and ethnic minority-inhabited areas build infrastructure, develop production and diversify their livelihood. Of the total, over 115.6 billion VND (5.1 million USD) is sourced from the State budget. Accordingly, more than 86 billion VND (nearly 3.8 million USD) will be used in infrastructure development such as transport, irrigation systems and cultural houses. Livelihood diversification and poverty reduction will get more than 20 billion VND (880,000 USD). Meanwhile, nearly 10 billion VND (440,000 USD) will be used to maintain facilities and improve capacity of the public and local officials. The targeted localities comprise Lam Binh, Na Hang, Chiem Hoa, Ham Yen, Yen Son and Son Duong districts. Tuyen Quang has 699 villages and hamlets in … [Read more...] about Tuyen Quang: over 116 billion VND allocated to ethnic minorities
Bac Giang province increases ethnic minority people’s living standard
Truong Thi Hau, a member of the Dao ethnic minority, is honoured for making high profits from agricultural and breeding production. (Photo: VNA)Accordingly, the province will mobilize resources for investing in socio-economic infrastructure in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous regions, including flood-avoiding roads, bridges leading to extremely disadvantaged villages, irrigation works, water pumping stations and the dyke system serving production and people’s daily lives. Apart from assisting ethnic minority people cope with shortages of residential and production land, production and daily water, the province will also support poor ethnic minority people to build and repair houses; upgrade water supply constructions and the power system for providing electricity for 100% of families in mountainous areas. Together with expanding the application of technology into production, the province has made favourable conditions for ethnic minority people to create start-ups, … [Read more...] about Bac Giang province increases ethnic minority people’s living standard
Binh Dinh province gives rice seedling support to ethnic minorities
Farmers visit rice fields in Phuoc Hung commune, Tuy Phuoc district. (Photo: baobinhdinh.vn)Over the past three years, ethnic minority people have cultivated rice production area of 7,300 hectares, gaining average productivity of 6 tons per hectares, an increase of more than 700 kilograms per hectare compared with normal rice seedlings. In the 2017-2018 winter - spring season, farmers planted rice on over 1,780 hectares, with productivity of over 6.2 tons per hectare, helping farmers get an additional VND4.3 million profit per hectare compared to the common rice in the same condition. According to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the support by authorities and related agencies has helped ethnic minority people change their old production habits which have low productivity. As a result, the support has contributed to remarkably reducing free migration, deforestation, and food shortages between crops. Apart from giving 100% of rice seedling support for … [Read more...] about Binh Dinh province gives rice seedling support to ethnic minorities
Seminar seeks ways to preserve music genres of ethnic minorities
The seminar was designed to review the preservation of traditional music genres in the regions as well as the implementation of policies in the field. Based on the results, suitable orientations and measures were put forth to prevent traditional music genres of the central and Central Highlands regions from falling into oblivion in the modern life. A set of Gong from the Central Highlands Participants heard reports on distinct features and values of musical genres by cultural researchers, music teachers, and musicians from Thua Thien-Hue province in the central region and the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai, Lam Dong, and Dak Lak. Researcher Vinh Phuc from the Hue Academy of Music talked in details how to pass down the Central Highlands region’s Gong music to next generations. Others analyzed the preservation on the perspective of policies targeting ethnic musicians or introduced the building of a new music environment as a potential solution. The seminar … [Read more...] about Seminar seeks ways to preserve music genres of ethnic minorities