Humanitarian programme for disabled launched
A programme to help the disabled
integrate into the community was launched in the northern port city of
Hai Phong on July 2 by several local enterprises.
A programme to help the disabled
integrate into the community was launched in the northern port city of
Hai Phong on July 2 by several local enterprises.
The “For Equality and Communal Integration” programme is in response to the decade of the disabled in Asia and the Pacific in the 2003-2012 period.
Vo Thi Hong Anh, director of the Bao Chung Vision Impaired Joint Stock Company and director of the programme, said the programme will focus on improving the disabled’s access to education, vocational training and suitable jobs, thus gaining full equality and integration.
According to the Institute for Social Research, Vietnam has bout 5.4 million disabled people. Of them, about 41 percent have never held a job and only one quarter of the disabled over 15 years old are in employment.
Moreover, the country has not yet had any college or university programmes for the disabled and some vocational training programmes in localities a small scale, which partly helped the disabled./.
The “For Equality and Communal Integration” programme is in response to the decade of the disabled in Asia and the Pacific in the 2003-2012 period.
Vo Thi Hong Anh, director of the Bao Chung Vision Impaired Joint Stock Company and director of the programme, said the programme will focus on improving the disabled’s access to education, vocational training and suitable jobs, thus gaining full equality and integration.
According to the Institute for Social Research, Vietnam has bout 5.4 million disabled people. Of them, about 41 percent have never held a job and only one quarter of the disabled over 15 years old are in employment.
Moreover, the country has not yet had any college or university programmes for the disabled and some vocational training programmes in localities a small scale, which partly helped the disabled./.
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