HCM City has spent billions of dong on its price stabilisation programme for stationery items ahead of the new school year that begins officially on September 5.
The programme focusing on textbooks, notebooks, handbags and uniforms has expanded to many rural districts, industrial parks and export processing zones.
Local businesses participating in the programme are supplying more than 17 million notebooks and 600,000 pairs of uniforms, meeting 48 per cent of the market’s demand.
More mobile sales are being launched to bring the goods to people in rural and remote areas.
NHAN DAN (The People)
Quang Nam supports ethnic minority students
A project to provide ethnic minority students with 1,600 tonnes of rice has been approved by the People’s Committee of central Quang Nam Province.
Under the project, primary and senior secondary day-boarding schools in the province will receive rice for free to support students who continue their studies instead of dropping out for reasons related to poverty and hunger.
THANH NIEN (Young People)
Farm households enjoy preferential loans
Nearly four per cent of farm households nationwide joined preferential loan programmes cost VND13 trillion (US$619 million) for the last three years, thanks to the support of the Viet Nam Farmers’ Association.
The loans are funded by State-owned banks and credit institutions.
NGUOI LAO DONG ( The Labourer)
City gifts textbooks to poor students
More than 1,000 people in HCM City will participate in a book donation programme called the Entertainment and Education Bookshelf, which has been launched by a group of young volunteers in the city and some other provinces since 2009.
They will donate 10,000 textbooks to poor students in the remote districts of Dong Giang and Tay Giang in the central province of Quang Nam.
TUOI TRE (Youth)
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