The Central Highlands provinces have provided financial assistance andlanguage training, and allocated land to local ethnic minorityhouseholds in a bid to improve their living conditions.
By 2013, as many as 231 households in Krong Nang district, Dak Lakprovince, which is home to more than 15,000 ethnic minority residents,were given 200ha of farmland and residential land.
Vice Chairman of the district’s People’s Committee, Nguyen Ky, saidthe move helped stabilise residents’ lives, increasing their incomes andreducing the local poverty rate to 10.37 percent in 2013.
In addition, local residents also received financial assistance andtechnical guidance on cultivation, husbandry and forest protection.
Since 2002, the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai, Kon Tum, DakLak, Dak Nong and Lam Dong have allocated over 30,000ha of land tonearly 80,000 ethnic minority households.
Meanwhile, Kon Tum province has implemented measures to preserve spoken and written ethnic minority languages.
The Central Highlands are home to 6.5 million people, with ethnicminorities accounting for 45 percent of the region’s population,including the Bahnar, Jrai, Ede, and Sedang ethnic groups.
Kon Tum, Gia Lai and Dak Lak provinces have added Bahnar, Jrai andEde languages to their primary and high school curricula.
The Central Highlands provinces also worked with ministries andresearch institutions to publish Ede-Vietnamese and Bahnar-Vietnamesedictionaries and bilingual books that were distributed to localcommunities.-VNA
By 2013, as many as 231 households in Krong Nang district, Dak Lakprovince, which is home to more than 15,000 ethnic minority residents,were given 200ha of farmland and residential land.
Vice Chairman of the district’s People’s Committee, Nguyen Ky, saidthe move helped stabilise residents’ lives, increasing their incomes andreducing the local poverty rate to 10.37 percent in 2013.
In addition, local residents also received financial assistance andtechnical guidance on cultivation, husbandry and forest protection.
Since 2002, the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai, Kon Tum, DakLak, Dak Nong and Lam Dong have allocated over 30,000ha of land tonearly 80,000 ethnic minority households.
Meanwhile, Kon Tum province has implemented measures to preserve spoken and written ethnic minority languages.
The Central Highlands are home to 6.5 million people, with ethnicminorities accounting for 45 percent of the region’s population,including the Bahnar, Jrai, Ede, and Sedang ethnic groups.
Kon Tum, Gia Lai and Dak Lak provinces have added Bahnar, Jrai andEde languages to their primary and high school curricula.
The Central Highlands provinces also worked with ministries andresearch institutions to publish Ede-Vietnamese and Bahnar-Vietnamesedictionaries and bilingual books that were distributed to localcommunities.-VNA
