As many as 50 cows were donated to poor households in the northern province of Lang Son as part of a program to reduce poverty in local border areas. President Truong Tan Sang hailed the “Cows for the Poor” initiative at the granting ceremony yesterday, saying it would help improve living standards. The program plans to give 36,000 cows to poor households in 11 northern border provinces by October 2016. The program is being carried out by the Border Guard High Command, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, the Central Committee of Vietnam Red Cross Society, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Viettel telecommunications group, the State Bank of Vietnam and the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies. (Vietnam News Aug 15)
