ACWF Fights Against Poverty in All-round Manner

 November 1, 2018
ACWF Fights Against Poverty in All-round Manner

 

The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) has implemented multiple actions to do its part in realizing the commitments made by President Xi Jinping on lifting people in rural areas out of poverty, and significant results have been achieved, according to officials.

Currently, women account for 45.6 percent of the general population who are poverty-stricken in China, and 49.3 percent among those in abject poverty.

Women commonly face high levels of work pressure, mental burdens and other stressful factors due to issues including a lack of education, poor labor skills, weak entrepreneurial ability and market resistance.

They are burdened by the responsibility of taking care of the elderly and the young. They became a key group affected by poverty

As the bridge connecting the Party, the government and women, ACWF has vigorously carried out the actions for poverty alleviation by adhering to the arrangements of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the State Council.

As of the end of June, various types of training has been attended by poverty-stricken women for some 6.9 million times, and 13,800 poverty alleviation bases have been established in 832 poverty-stricken counties.

These actions have helped over 3 million women increase their incomes through handicrafts, e-commerce, housekeeping and characteristic agriculture.

In addition, ACWF has coordinated with poverty relief departments in issuing small loans of a total of 58.9 billion yuan to support 1.072 million women in entrepreneurship.

More than 35,000 women have also been subsidized in the treatment of breast and cervical cancer.

(Source: Department for Women's Development of the ACWF/ Translated and edited by Women of China)

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