The Da Nang Women’s Union held a conference on 16 May on a project building climate change resistant houses for needy people in urban areas.

A corner of Da Nang (Photo: VNA)

Chairwoman of the Union Nguyen Thi Thu Ha said that her union was working with the Norway Vista Analysis Institute, and the US Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, to deploy the project from April 2016 until September 2018.

The Nordic Development Fund is providing nearly 900,000 EUR to build some 160 houses for impoverished women across the city.

Da Nang is regularly affected by climate change, especially increasingly frequent and intense storms.

The housing scheme provides loans of 10-30 million VND (440-1,322 USD) for vulnerable families to build or repair their houses.

The US Rockefeller Foundation has also supported Da Nang to build storm-resistant houses since 2011.

(Source: VNA/ DA NANG Today)