By the end of 2010, more than 1,160 agencies and units in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak had set up ties with villages inhabited by ethnic minority people to help them in their work and life.
The figure was released at a conference hosted by the provincial Party Committee on February 17 to review the six-year implementation of the brotherhood establishment between government agencies and businesses and ethnic minority-inhabited villages.
During the 2004-2010 period, the units presented these villages received gifts and various equipment and goods needed for their people’s work and daily life worth over VND37 billion (USD1.78 million).
Thousands of cadres were also sent to the villages to help draw up their regulations and conventions, and to organize literacy and primary education courses as well as cultural, artistic and sport activities.