On Thursday the Da Nang Women's Union held a meeting to review the city's implementation of the “Storm Resistant Housing for a Resilient Da Nang” project over the 2011 - 2013 period.  Funded by the USA’s Rockefeller Fund, the over 400,000 USD project is being implemented between 2011 and 2014.

During the review period, the project has been successfully deployed in 8 wards and communes across the city.  They are Man Thai and Tho Quang wards in Son Tra District, Hoa Hai and Hoa Quy wards in Ngu Hanh Son District, Hoa Hiep Nam and Hoa Hiep Bac wards in Lien Chieu District, and Hoa Nhon and Hoa Phu communes in Hoa Vang District.

To date, 245 out of a total of 410 families in these localities have accessed the project’s loans, valued at up to 30 million VND each, to help them to build their new storm resistant homes or reinforce their existing weak ones.  Top priority was given to poor families living in vulnerable communities in the central coastal areas that are frequently affected by climate change.

Financial assistance for the project will be ended in 2014.  However, the Women's Union will continue to deploy this project in the remaining communes and wards in the city.