Leaders present Tet gifts to disadvantaged families nationwide

Local disadvantaged families and policy beneficiaries nationwide continue to receive meaningful supports to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh presents gifts to disadvantaged ethnic minority households in Ninh Thuan province. (Photo: NDO)
Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh presents gifts to disadvantaged ethnic minority households in Ninh Thuan province. (Photo: NDO)

On February 9, Politburo member cum Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh led a Government delegation to visit and present Tet gifts to local Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, wounded soldiers, and ethnic minority households in Ninh Thuan province.

The Deputy PM encouraged disadvantaged households in the province to aspire through labour and production to sustainably escape from poverty.

The same day, Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung visited Khanh village in Phu Cuong commune, Tan Lac district of Hoa Binh province. The locality suffered heavy losses following a landslide in October 2017.

Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung (second from right) encourages local people affected by a landslide in Hoa Binh province last October. (Photo: VGP)

The government official visited Dinh Thi Xuan's family, the wife of Dinh Cong Sinh who died in the landslide, and presented Tet gifts to ten families still suffering from the effects of the calamity. He encouraged the locals to continue their efforts to overcome losses and quickly stabilise their lives.

He asked the authorities of Tan Lac district and Hoa Binh province to create conditions for local people to settle in their new homes soon. Functional agencies were urged to closely monitor all geological developments in the site to provide early warnings to local people.

On the occasion of the upcoming Tet, Politburo member head of the Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission Tran Quoc Vuong presented Tet gifts to poor households and households affected by natural disasters in the districts of Van Chan and Mu Cang Chai and Nghia Lo town in Yen Bai province.

Politburo member Vuong shared his sympathy for the difficulties and losses that local people have encountered in the disasters. He expressed his hope that along with the support from the State, ethnic minorities in Yen Bai province would draw on their internal strengths to concentrate on economic development and overcome poverty. He suggested that local authorities pay close attention to caring for locals to make sure they enjoy a warm Tet.

Politburo member and head of the Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission Tran Quoc Vuong presents Tet gifts to Yen Bai flood victims. (Photo: NDO)

The Head of the Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission handed over 200 gifts to poor households and those affected by natural disasters in the province. The Vietnam Red Cross Society gave 100 presents to 100 households affected by calamitous events in the province. The Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam granted VND6 billion to support the construction of local boarding schools.

Also on the same day, a delegation from Nhan Dan Newspaper, led by Member of the Editorial Board Pham Song Ha, presented gifts to policy beneficiaries in Huu Lung district, Lang Son province.

Luc Van Tap (L) in Tan Tao hamlet, Nhat Tien commune, Huu Lung district, Lang Son province, receives a present from Nhan Dan Newspaper.