Nam Suong village, Muong Te district used to be located along a stream, above the village were high hills.

Located in a particularly difficult area, the already poor life of the villagers became even more difficult when two years ago, cracks appeared along the mountain slope above the village; below the village, landslides and subsidence appeared, running along the stream.

Over time, the cracks grew larger and landslides under the stream became more frequent, causing panic and fear among the people.

Mr. Lo Van Lon, Party Cell Secretary, Head of Nam Suong Village said: "Since the cracks appeared on the mountain, the area along the stream has often suffered landslides and subsidence, the lives of the villagers have not been peaceful, everyone always lives in anxiety, especially during the rainy season. The village is inherently poor and unstable, so people are not confident in doing business, out of 85 households, 43 are poor, the rest are near-poor, the people want most to settle down and make a living...".

The old residence of 85 Mang ethnic households is located in a remote, difficult area with a high risk of landslides.

Faced with the above risks, in order for people to have a stable life, in September 2022, Muong Te district approved the implementation of the Nam Suong village infrastructure investment project, Vang San commune, with a total investment of more than 19.5 billion VND from the capital of the National Target Program on socio-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

The invested items include roads to the village level, school sites, land leveling, general domestic water supply, electricity supply and stable residential arrangement... Thereby ensuring safety for the people , while allowing people to have conditions to focus on economic development, improve people's knowledge, and gradually escape poverty.

At the new residence, facilities are fully invested, meeting the general development needs of the people.

According to Mr. Pham Xuan Do, Deputy Director of the Management Board of the Socio-Economic Development Project of Muong Te District, immediately after approval, the unit urged contractors to construct, speed up the progress and ensure the quality of the works. By the end of 2024, the construction items were accepted, and people have moved to new places and are completing their houses to stabilize their lives.

These days, all households in Nam Suong village are busy building a new life with faith and expectation of change, prosperity, safety and development.

People are building houses in their new home.

Ms. Lo Thi Sang, a villager, excitedly said, “My house used to be right on a dry stream. During the dry season, there was no water, but when it rained, the water rushed down with rocks, which was very dangerous. Every rainy season, my family was so worried that they couldn’t sleep. Many times when it rained heavily, we had to move to another house and didn’t dare sleep in our house. Now that the government has invested in the land, our family has moved up to build a stable house with electricity and water, and the road is big and wide, making it very convenient for traveling.”

The house under construction of Ms. Lo Thi Anh's family at their new residence.

Similar to Mrs. Sang, Ms. Lo Thi Anh, while carrying a bucket of mortar for her husband to build a house, bragged that before, the couple built a wooden house near the stream to live in, but since the stream bank collapsed, the house has also deteriorated, and it is very scary to live there... Now, moving to a new site, the couple decided to build a solid house, not a wooden house anymore. The government supported 60 million VND, and we also borrowed more capital from the social policy bank. My husband used to work as a construction worker, so he knows how to build. We asked our brothers and relatives in the village to help. Now, we are almost done with our dream house on the new land. Life is stable, the family will consider doing business, developing the economy...

Spacious houses at the new residence of Nam Suong people.

While fathers and mothers are busy taking care of their families, at the village school, the future green buds after school hours are innocently playing in the clean, spacious space of the new school yard. Seeing that scene is like seeing the bright future of the Nam Suong people.

Ms. Dao Thi Duong, a teacher at Nam Suong village, Vang San commune kindergarten, said that in the old village, the school was cramped, there was no space for children to play, and the house was also degraded. Now that it has moved to this new location, the classrooms are spacious, airy, tiled, fully equipped with electric fans, and the playground is large and clean. The kindergarten facilities are spacious, so the children are more excited to go to class.

In the new place, the children of the ethnic minorities can study in a spacious school.

In difficult conditions in many aspects, in order to have funds to move households and help households move to new places, the local Party Committee and government of Muong Te border district and Vang San commune had to mobilize all forces from soldiers, cadres, members and people of villages near and far to support and help the people of Nam Suong village to move to a new place, to quickly build a new, stable and safe life for development.

People and forces in the commune were mobilized to help people move to new homes.

Mr. Vang Van Chinh, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Vang San Commune, said that the commune mobilized all forces to support the people as quickly as possible. Including 50 soldiers to help the people move for two weeks. Along with that, all cadres and civil servants of the commune took turns going directly to the village during the entire moving process and building houses for the people. The commune mobilized each household to nominate one person to support, calling on benefactors to support vehicles for transportation...

Up to now, the commune has moved all 85 Mang ethnic households to the new site. Currently, 20 households have built and completed their houses. The commune continues to call for support and mobilize all forces to ensure that households complete their houses as soon as possible. In addition, the commune also plans to continue investing in internal roads and other auxiliary parts, and at the same time, proposes to invest in an additional road to the production area about 2km to shorten the detour distance (about 10km long) to help people stabilize production and develop the economy.

Source: https://nhandan.vn/xay-cuoc-song-moi-cho-nguoi-mang-o-nam-suong-post864456.html