PANO – The A Mu Sung Border Post and Economy-Defence Corps 345 have joined hands to improve A Mu Sung people’s living standard.
A Mu Sung commune, Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province, is located on a mountain hill 2,000m above sea level. This locality is always covered by winds and clouds, and facing shortage of fresh water.
Lieutenant Colonel Pham Thanh Son, commander of the post, said that the border troops and Corps 345, over the past years, have instructed the locals to grow such new plants with higher productivity as banana, rice, tea and rubber trees. They have helped upgrade the local primary school as well.
With the troops’ wholeheartedly contributions, the locality has its poverty rate reduced dramatically, from 74 per cent in 2011 to 62 per cent in 2013.
Here are some photos of A Mu Sung border guards and the locals building new life, taken by PANO’s reporter Minh Truong.
A Mu Sung Border Post's troops teaming up with local militia to conduct border patrols
Leaders of the post, Corps 345 and the locality inspecting the process of the building a road in Nam Chac commune under a program to build new rural areas
The post's medical staff providing free medicines and consultancy for local women to ensure family planning
The old classrooms are now replaced by the new ones
New classrooms for local students
The border guard guiding H'mong ethnic minority people to cultivate banana trees with higher capacity and economic efficiency
The post's staff always getting close to the locals, especially caring children
Translated by Mai Huong
Đăng ký: VietNam News