New gratitude houses for Bru people in Quang Binh

The charitable delegation also brought various gifts to local people.

Sat village, Truong Son commune, is home to 34 households with 152 residents, who mainly live on agricultural activities. The floods in early November last year led to potential landslides in the locality, threatening to destroy the whole village. As a result, all residents had evacuated to the forest and lived in canvas tents.

Thanks to the supports from the community and the local authorities, new houses have been built for the local people.

Although they live in a new location with unfavorable conditions, local people villagers still try their best to cultivate crops and their children overcome all difficulties to go to school, said Nguyen Van Muon, head of the village.

Now, all of the households of the Bru Van Kieu ethnicity in Sat village are living in newly-built homes. The new village also has a 2-storey building which serves as a school and a place for people to avoid floods.

For the villagers, the new homes are the realization of their dreams, said Nguyen Van Nhi, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Truong Son commune.

With the desire for local people to soon settle down their lives in a new village, the leader of Quang Binh province had directed the local authorities and related units to speed up the construction while ensuring quality of the houses.

On this occasion, the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Quang Binh province also called for a donation of 150 million VND to build a playground and purchase equipment for the children at the local primary school, and coordinated with the provincial management board of the sustainable rural development project for the poor to call for funding from foreign organizations to build a domestic water supply system and environmental sanitation treatment system worth some 1.1 billion VND.