Defense-Economic Unit 79 hands over welfare facilities to ethnic communities

Leaders from Unit 79 and Kim Ngan commune inaugurate Khe Sung spillway bridge.

The lighting project in Khe Giua hamlet is put into use.

In implementing national target programs on socio-economic development in ethnic areas, the unit has coordinated with local Party committees and authorities to conduct survey and build practical welfare facilities and livelihood models in support of the Bru-Van Kieu ethnic people in the area where the unit is stationed.

The unit inaugurated, handed over and put into use such facilities as the Khe Sung spillway bridge which is 114m long with a total investment of over VND 4 billion; clean water systems for Km14 and Khe Sung hamlets with a total investment of more than VND 2.7 billion; and the 930m-lighting project in Khe Giua hamlet with 31 poles and solar energy-powered 300W LED lights, with a total investment of VND 152 million.

From now on, people in Km14 hamlet have clean water thanks to the system built by Unit 79.

The same day, the unit presented 29 breeding cows, totally valued at VND 532 million, to 29 poor and near-poor households in Trung Doan, Mit Cat, and Ho Rum hamlets. It also provided the second batch of financial assistance and supplies for 2025, worth VND 64.5 million, to 25 students from Kim Ngan commune under the “Military officers and soldiers paving the way to school for students” program. Among these students, five are adopted and 20 others receive support for their continuous study.

Poor and near-poor households receive breeding cows.

Leaders of Unit 79 and Kim Ngan commune hand over funding and supplies to students.

The inauguration and handover of welfare facilities and livelihood models reflected the deep concern of the Party Committees and Chains-of-Command of Corps 15 in general and of Defense-Economic Unit 79 in particular. These would help improve locals’ living standards, positively transforming the hamlets, and strengthening the close bond between the military and people, contributing to the locality’s completion of national target program criteria on sustainable poverty reduction and new-style rural area building.

Translated by Mai Huong