Give "fishing rods" to generate income

At the end of June 2025, the Son Tra Ward Women's Union coordinated with the Son Tra Regional Program (under WVI) to provide livelihoods to 9 households in the sustainable poverty reduction livelihood program.

The family of Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Diem (born in 1991) is in a difficult situation. Her husband is a freelance worker, supporting his elderly parents and two young children.

After learning about Ms. Diem's ​​circumstances and livelihood, the Son Tra Regional Program supported her with two rice cookers, a double induction cooker, a blender, a hand-held porridge blender, and two fans to "renew" the nutritious porridge shop.

“Since receiving the new items, my business has been quite smooth,” Ms. Diem shared.

Or like the family of Ms. Nguyen Thi Oanh Vi (born in 1985, Son Tra ward) is near poor. After her husband divorced, Ms. Vi alone has to raise 4 school-age children. All income depends on the morning bread cart.

To help Ms. Vi increase her income, the Son Tra Regional Program donated a freezer and a blender so she could sell more juices and smoothies.

Son Tra Ward Women's Union said that this is the second round of livelihood assistance in 2025 for 9 households participating in the sustainable poverty reduction livelihood program sponsored by WVI, with a total value of nearly 90 million VND.

Livelihood means are granted based on the needs, desires, conditions and circumstances of each household to maximize their effectiveness.

Not only supporting livelihoods, the Son Tra Regional Program also organizes training for female traders, female entrepreneurs, households in the sustainable poverty reduction livelihood program, and livelihood development program on improving business efficiency, especially in the digital age.

In particular, households are also trained in sales skills, applying technology to bring products to social networking platforms to expand the market, adapt to digital transformation trends, and develop business.

In mountainous areas, WVI also implements a series of projects to improve livelihoods for households with children.

The program helps support crops and livestock, develop economic models suitable for the locality, help households do business, develop the economy, improve income, and contribute positively to the socio-economic development process in the area.

Ms. Vu Thi Nga, Director of Operations for Regional Programs at WVI, said that under the merger, WVI continues to maintain and implement programs and projects that it has committed to funding.

At the same time, research and propose new suitable projects, focusing on mountainous areas, remote areas, and ethnic minority areas with many difficulties, contributing to promoting the development of disadvantaged areas, aiming at the goal of building an increasingly better community.