Lang Son province: Fifty two percent of Women’s Unions at the grassroots level organized Congress of the Term 2006-2011

19/10/2006
In early 2005, Lang Son Women’s Union directed Women’s Union at grassroots levels to conduct the Women’s Congress (term 2006 – 2011).

Lang Son is o­ne of the 5 provinces chosen by the Central Committee of the VWU as a pilot province to organize the provincial Women’s Congress to draw experiences to organizing the Xth National Women’s Congress scheduled for March 2007. To May 31st, all grassroots Women’s Unions accomplished their congress and the provincial Women Congress was held in early October.

 

Lang Son Women’s Union supported nearly VND 100 million for hunger eradication and poverty reduction.

 

In the first quarter of 2006, Women’s Union at the grassroots level in Lang Son enhanced its support to the poor women headed households through providing loans without interest charge, seeds, breeding animals, and a workday with total value of nearly 100 million VND for poverty alleviation. In addition, The Women’s Union at all levels has work out with Banks to provide credit without collateral with a total capital of VND 2.3 billion, of which 2 billions with light interest are from Social Policies Bank alone.

 

Lang Son provincial women’s union has launched and directed its subordinated levels to implement the movement “Eradicating Temporary and Dilapidated House” for poor women; monitoring the utilization of trusted loans; actively communicating o­n prevention and combat against trafficking in women and children./.

Translated by VWU Int’l Relations Department
Lang Son Newspaper

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