Disability Resource and Development Vietnam has launched a website toprovide people with disabilities information about laws related to them.
Vo Thi Hoang Yen, head of the HCM City-based non-profit organisation,said she hoped the site would of benefit to them and help protect them.
"When the DRD Vietnam was founded… a student sent me a lettersaying he was seeking information about the disabled but could not findit anywhere."
Many disabled people did not know their rights or the benefits the Government offers.
The Government's websites published legal information related to manyfields, meaning people with disabilities find it hard to get through theclutter and access the information related to them.
TheDRD Vietnam has invited legal experts like Le Thi Bich Tho, Dang ThiTuyet Mai and Dang Duc Tri to help update its website. They will alsoprovide disabled people with legal advice and represent them ifrequired.
The site will assist them with administrativetasks like obtaining birth and marriage certificates, licences,pensions, and others.
Butwww.luatvachinh-sach.drdvietnam.com will also be very helpful for peoplewithout disabilities seeking information about legal provisions.
According to the General Statistics Office, 15 percent of thepopulation has disabilities. Of them, less than a fifth have a highschool degree and less than 1 percent have gone to college or graduated.
The DRD Vietnam said the disabled faced not onlyattitudinal and infrastructure barriers in Vietnam but also often lackedconfidence, basic education, working skills and knowledge of the law,which pose hurdles to their efforts to find work and climb out ofpoverty.
Since 2005, the DRD has been working to support and raise awareness of issues affecting people with disabilities.
It collaborates with other organisations that support such people inthe south and is in touch with over 2,000 people with disabilities./.
Vo Thi Hoang Yen, head of the HCM City-based non-profit organisation,said she hoped the site would of benefit to them and help protect them.
"When the DRD Vietnam was founded… a student sent me a lettersaying he was seeking information about the disabled but could not findit anywhere."
Many disabled people did not know their rights or the benefits the Government offers.
The Government's websites published legal information related to manyfields, meaning people with disabilities find it hard to get through theclutter and access the information related to them.
TheDRD Vietnam has invited legal experts like Le Thi Bich Tho, Dang ThiTuyet Mai and Dang Duc Tri to help update its website. They will alsoprovide disabled people with legal advice and represent them ifrequired.
The site will assist them with administrativetasks like obtaining birth and marriage certificates, licences,pensions, and others.
Butwww.luatvachinh-sach.drdvietnam.com will also be very helpful for peoplewithout disabilities seeking information about legal provisions.
According to the General Statistics Office, 15 percent of thepopulation has disabilities. Of them, less than a fifth have a highschool degree and less than 1 percent have gone to college or graduated.
The DRD Vietnam said the disabled faced not onlyattitudinal and infrastructure barriers in Vietnam but also often lackedconfidence, basic education, working skills and knowledge of the law,which pose hurdles to their efforts to find work and climb out ofpoverty.
Since 2005, the DRD has been working to support and raise awareness of issues affecting people with disabilities.
It collaborates with other organisations that support such people inthe south and is in touch with over 2,000 people with disabilities./.
