Handover of resilient houses to poor households in Quang Nam Province
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Quang Nam, February 4, 2021 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Construction of Quang Nam province organize the handover of the first batch of resilient houses to poor households in time to celebrate the Lunar New Year. This is one of the activities of the UNDP project “Response to disasters in Viet Nam” to repair 3,323 houses and build 20 new houses (10 in Quang Nam province and 10 in Quang Ngai province).
Quang Nam is one of the coastal provinces which have to suffer from strong storms annually. According to the province's statistics, just for the storm No. 9 in 2020, the total number of houses damaged was more than 27,000 and more than 26,000 houses were partially damaged, affecting the lives of thousands of people.