Settling down - a sustainable poverty escape support in Buon Don

Supporting housing construction for people in the border commune of Buon Don has created a solid foundation for settlement, thereby motivating many families to find jobs and escape poverty sustainably.

In Thong Nhat village, Mr. Y Nen Kđoh’s family of 6 used to live in an old, dilapidated stilt house. His grandparents were farmers, working hard to make a living to raise their children and grandchildren to adulthood. Therefore, the degraded roof created a mental burden, making them unable to confidently invest their efforts in economic development.

Buon Don Commune Police visited and talked with the family that had just received support to build a Gratitude House in June 2025.

Joy came to Mr. Y Nen Kđoh's family when the local authorities created favorable conditions to support the construction of a new house under the program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses. With the support of 80 million VND and savings, his family built and inaugurated a spacious house in mid-2025.

They happily said that thanks to the attention and support of the commune police and local authorities, their family has this dream house. Now, they feel more secure in doing business and developing the economy.

Supporting the construction of spacious houses of gratitude has motivated many families to feel secure in doing business and developing the economy.

Major Tran Quang Duy, Deputy Head of Buon Don Commune Police, said: “To effectively implement the Prime Minister 's program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses in 2025, the Commune Police proactively advised the Commune Steering Committee to thoroughly review and ensure the right subjects. Thanks to the consensus, the program was quickly implemented, soon completing 22 houses of gratitude to give to disadvantaged households in the area, with a uniform support level of 80 million VND/house.”

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the commune handed over Great Solidarity houses to poor households in the area.

In Tri village, Y Hiep Nie's wooden house was dilapidated and crooked, consuming a lot of resources and time to repair and patch. To help his family, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee mobilized all resources and supported the family with 50 million VND to build a Great Unity house. Last August, the joy of a new house freed them from the biggest burden of a place to live. Now, having the ability to work and a place to live motivates them to put all their mind and energy into developing the family economy.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan, head of Tri village, shared that the whole village has 351 households with 1,262 people. In recent years, many programs have been implemented in the area to help people settle down and make a living, with a budget of 50-100 million VND. Thanks to that huge resource, the village has significantly reduced the number of poor households. If there were 119 poor households before, now there are only 75 poor households.

Buon Don is a border commune, with 1,793 households with 6,654 people belonging to 15 ethnic groups living together. This place has the specific challenges of remote areas: limited education level, main income from agriculture , economic and social life is still difficult, a part of the people do not have land to cultivate.

Border Guards contributed many days of work to build houses of Gratitude and Great Solidarity in Buon Don commune.

Amidst many difficulties, poverty reduction efforts have produced remarkable results. In 2025, the poverty rate in the commune will be 26.10%, down 6% compared to 2024. This success comes from the housing program and many other comprehensive, multidimensional poverty reduction strategies.

Along with being supported with housing, people are also supported to develop their livelihoods and consciously strive to escape poverty. Households have actively applied good technical measures in farming, bringing high-yield, high-quality varieties into production, thereby increasing productivity, output and prices, contributing to increasing income.

A secure place to live will certainly help Mr. Y Hiep Nie's family (right cover) have more motivation to develop the economy and production.

Mr. Nguyen Canh Tung, Chairman of Buon Don Commune People's Committee, shared that the new house is not only a place to shelter from the rain and sun, but also a symbol of care and belief for people to boldly change their thinking and way of doing things.

In the coming time, in addition to continuing to review and completely eliminate temporary houses, the commune will focus resources, create maximum conditions in terms of capital, technology, and market linkage so that people can take advantage of the motivation from stable housing to break through and escape poverty, contribute to stabilizing the economy and production, and participate in building Buon Don commune to develop more and more.

Source: https://baodaklak.vn/xa-hoi/202512/an-cu-diem-tua-thoat-ngheo-ben-vung-o-buon-don-89e0eb7/