Mobilizing more than 600 billion VND for natural disaster prevention

As of 2023, the Community Disaster Prevention Fund has mobilized more than 600 billion VND from more than 300 donors, including individuals and businesses at home and abroad.

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Da Nang City has received many projects to enhance disaster prevention and control capacity implemented by the Community Disaster Prevention Fund, such as community disaster prevention works, automatic flood warning stations and emergency relief support activities for people and students when disasters occur...

In Da Nang City, the Community Disaster Prevention Fund recently held a ceremony to celebrate its 15th anniversary and received a Certificate of Merit from the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for the Fund's contributions to raising awareness and capacity for disaster prevention in localities across the country.

In 2008, the Central Region Disaster Prevention Support Fund was authorized by the Ministry of Home Affairs to be established and operate within the Central Region provinces. In 2018, the Fund was renamed the Community Disaster Prevention Fund according to the Decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs and expanded its scope of operations nationwide.

The Community Disaster Prevention Fund's operational objective is to serve the community, paying special attention to vulnerable groups in natural disasters, such as children, women, ethnic minorities, the poor, etc.

As of 2023, the Community Disaster Prevention Fund has mobilized more than 600 billion VND from more than 300 donors, including individuals and businesses at home and abroad, to support projects to support people in proactively responding to natural disasters.

With the policy of investing in dual-use projects that both serve socio-economic development and are ready to be safe shelters for people in disaster areas, the Community Disaster Prevention Fund has recently built 88 classrooms and schools, 20 medical stations, and 14 community activity houses across the country.

In 2016, the Community Fund for Natural Disaster Prevention implemented many projects to support people in preventing and combating drought and salinity effectively; 25 clean water supply stations, pipeline systems, and freshwater storage equipment were donated by philanthropists and businesses through the Fund with a sponsorship budget of over 78.5 billion VND.

In particular, the Fund also implemented the Project of Supporting Revolving Capital for Poor Women, providing capital to 1,114 women's households in 19 provinces and cities. The capital is preserved by the Women's Union at all levels, developing revolving capital effectively.

In 2018, the Fund's Join Hands to Help Children Learn to Swim Safely program also mobilized more than 90 billion VND to sponsor the construction of 142 safe swimming pools in schools.

With the goal of "No student has to drop out of school due to natural disasters", over the past 15 years, the Green Future Program and the Teaching Equipment Support Project have awarded scholarships worth more than 27 billion VND to more than 1,000 students in difficulty, equipped nearly 250 schools nationwide, helping these facilities quickly restore teaching activities after natural disasters, helping children go to school safely...

On behalf of the city leaders, thanking the Community Disaster Prevention Fund for its good results in recent times, Secretary of the Da Nang City Party Committee Nguyen Van Quang said that since 2009, Da Nang has received many projects to enhance disaster prevention and control capacity implemented by the Community Disaster Prevention Fund. Among them, there are 7 community disaster prevention works, 20 automatic rain gauge stations, 3 automatic flood warning stations, 12 swimming pools to prevent drowning and emergency relief support activities for people and students when natural disasters occur...

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