A delegation of the Central Highlands Steering Committee headed by Vice
Standing Chairman Tran Tien Hung paid a working visit to South Africa
from July 26-31.
The visit aims to research and
share experience in developing specific policies for the less developed
regions in South Africa.
At a working session with
the delegation, the head of the International Relations Department
under South Africa’s Ministry of Social Development, Edzi Ramaite
said the visit is an opportunity for the two countries to learn from
each other how to solve many issues relating to ethnic minority
communities in their respective countries.
The
Vietnam delegation paid special attention to South Africa’s recent
changes in poverty reduction policy, under which the provision of aid
in cash and kind for the poor is gradually replaced by investment in
creating jobs and improving capacity and skills for needy people.
The delegation toured Cape Town and a successful poverty reduction
model in Atlantis region, 45 kilometres from Cape Town.-VNA