No poor left behind / Sustainable poverty reduction

The "No poor left behind" program has been launched since VBSP’s establishment in 2002. Over 16 years, VBSP has trained 14.5 million the poor, 1.9 million the near-poor, 697,000 million newly-escaped-poverty households about financial education and banking finance. Besides training, VBSP provided microfinance services for 17.1 million turns of them to improve production, business; 568,000 houses for the poor; 13,000 storm-resistant houses in the central coast of Vietnam; over 3.6 million disadvantaged students borrowed education loans; 11.3 million safe water and sanitation facilities are built in rural areas.