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earth digging, etc., 6 workers in industrial zones, 7 locally peddling, and 8 fish catching during flood periods.
Average population density is 96 personskm2, mostly dwelling along main canals such as Bo Bao and KH canals. There are 28 poor households, accounting for 9 of total households, and
28 marginal-poor households. Among the poor and marginal-poor households, about 40 households have lived for 20-30 years without agricultural land, a household certificate, fishing
equipments, lacking incom generating labour, with a temporary house on other peole’s land, and without a toilet. The hamlet has 90 poor and mariginal poor households, accounting for
28 of total households, who have a small nippa house on canal banks. In the hamlet, there are about 38 of households having a toilet and about 28 of households accessing to clean
water from a community water supply station for domestic uses.
According to local people, important hazards include from high to low importance: 1 abnormal rains, 2 environmental pollution, 3 cyclones, 4 extremely hot air and 5 canal
bank erosion Table 15. Unlike Phung Quoi hamlet, flooding was not considered as important hazard while abnorma rains were perceived most important. Since 2000, local government and
people have upgraded Bo Bao dike and internal roads, people having heightened their homestead. In addition, rice production is the most important acivity here, so abnormal rains
causes have negative impacts. Like Phung Quoi A, environmental pollution is cinsidered most. Impacts on livelihoods of hazards will be given in details in following sections.
7.2 DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Thanh An Town
- CFSC established
- Rescue team of the Red Cross in three locations of the Town
- Has a plan to rescue people annually destination, locations, people in charge-of clean
water, living of the local people -
Every year cfsc are trained and demonstrationrehearsals are organised to prevent cyclones and rescue work according to district plan, once every 2 or 4 years.
- The town collects 2,000 dong per person per year from local people. Hamlet submits the
fund of 100 to the town, town 100 to the district and district 60 to the city. The district will use the funds to support the town in emergency work when disasters happen
and provide equipments for the twon based on the needs of the town.
Ph ụng Quới A and Bo Bao:
- Hamlet also has a rescue team of 11 people including young people and the army
- Local people in the hamlet pay annual cfsc fees but the rate is not high
Communications
- The town has a loudspeakers system to the hamlets to communicate and advocate to
local people. -
During the rainy and flood season, if there is no electricity, they will use ‘people’ to send messages to local communities.
- Around 80 of the households in each hamlet has TV and each hamlet has 2
loudspeakers which are working well. Experiences in disasters management
Thanh An town
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Since 1997, there is a programme of loans for heightening the floors of the houses. -
Support oils for running the water pumping machines during the flood 209 to rescue the rice from too much water.
- Dredge canals in Unit 7 of Bo Bao
- Support in terms of money to poor households to repair their houses if they are
collapsed or damaged.
Ấp Phụng Quới A và Ấp Bờ Bao:
- Around 80 households have rice during the flood season
- In 1978 when the historical floods happen, local people have used banana trunks, water
containers to make boats to move people and things to safer locations. -
Households borrow money to raise the floors levels. Bo Bao hamlet has 100 households who have borrowed with low interest rate from the government programes to raise their
floors three times compared to the previous level to ensure that flood water does not come into their houses.
- Neighbours help each other during the accidents, supporting the difficult households
- Use the pumping machine to take out the flood water
- Build houses with traditional roos of slope of over 40 to resist the storms. Many
households in Bo Bao hamlet use steel strings to reinforce their house roofs or use nylon to cover their houses before the floods and rainy season.
- New houses are built using steel ..moc to connect the house poles and roofs.
- Local people have some experiences in managing floods
Constraints -
Lack of rescue equipments for all hamlets engined baots, buoys, vests -
Town and hamlets do not have enough fundsreserves for disaster management -
Rescue teams of hamlets lack first aid skills -
Knowledge on DM and CC for local staff as well as people is limited -
Lack of experiences and techniques for storm resistant houses.
7.3 IMPACTS ON EDUCATION IN VINH THANH DISTRICT
