HA NOI — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday called on the Fatherland Front Central Committee to bolster its role in helping the country successfully implement social security strategies.
Two campaigns have been implemented in the last decade to help improve social security: encouraging people to build up the cultural life in their community and taking action to help poor people.
"The Fatherland Front has made great contributions to the success of both campaigns, which have become the highlight of its activities in the last 10 years," Dung told participants at the national meeting to review the implementation and achievement of the two campaigns in Ha Noi yesterday.
Almost all residential communities nationwide have taken part in the "Everyone unite to build cultural life in the residential community" campaign, which after 15 years since its launch in 1995 has seen recognised improvements in the cultural life of more than 50 per cent of the country's residential communities.
The ‘Day for the Poor' campaign has raised more than VND5.1 trillion (US$262 million) in its 10 years of implementation. The funds raised have helped millions of poor people begin and develop production activities, and given poor children the opportunity to get an education. A number of programmes like ‘Joining great hands' and ‘Homes for poor people in border areas and islands', which are part of the campaign, have helped build 150 welfare constructions for the people worth nearly VND150 billion ($7.7 million).
"The power of unity among all people is so great that it would help achieve the country's socio-economic targets and this power should be upheld," said Dung, who called for the continuity and expansion of similar campaigns.
The Government leader praised the pivotal role played by the Fatherland Front in the success of the two campaigns, and confirmed the Government's commitment to its close co-ordination with the Fatherland Front to launch and implement such meaningful and helpful programmes.
To expand the effectiveness of the two major campaigns, Party committees at all levels should put these programmes high on their agenda, Dung said while calling on relevant and authorised bodies to actively and closely co-ordinate with the Fatherland Front to help the campaigns develop ‘wider and deeper'.
The dissemination of information and mobilisation of all sources to get involved in implementing the campaigns were a key element to success, the PM said.
The Prime Minister urged the Ministry of Information and Communications to work with the Fatherland Front to promote the campaigns and exemplary works, acts and people.
Dung asked the Fatherland Front committees at all levels to develop inspection and management plans for the ‘Fund for the Poor', and urged them to ensure transparency and make the mobilisation of sources and the use of funds public at all levels. — VNS
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