Released prisoners get nearly VND 600 million as loans

09:07, 11/07/2011

(ĐN)- Recently, the Dong Nai Police Department has offered preferential loans worth VND 105 million for six former prisoners who had received amnesties in Xuan Loc district to help them develop their economy to improve their living conditions.

(ĐN)- Recently, the Dong Nai Police Department has offered preferential loans worth VND 105 million for six former prisoners who had received amnesties in Xuan Loc district to help them develop their economy to improve their living conditions. Particularly, thrree people received a loan valued at VND 20 million and three others got a loan worth VND 15 million.

The loans were granted from the provincial fund contributed by local busineses. Established in October  2010, the Fund aimed to mobilize financial resources from entrepreneurs in the province to help those who received amnesty overcome difficulties and stablise their life as well as help them re-integrate into the community and preventing them from violating the law again.

 

So far, the fund has granted 38 loans with a total value of around VND 600 million.

 

In addition to offering loans for released prisoners, the fund will provide financial assistance to poor households who have uncertain jobs and unstable incomes in the province in the coming time.

 

Reported by N.H