VAVA President Nguyen Van Rinh speaks at the event. (Photo: VNA) HCMCity (VNA) - The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA)and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held a conference in HoChi Minh City on August 2 to review a project on developing a vocational trainingmodel for people with disabilities caused by AO/Dioxin.
Speaking at the event, VAVA Chairman Nguyen Van Rinh said theclean vegetable growing project in Cam village in HCM City's outlying district of Hoc Mon, which wasadapted from Japan's advanced agriculture, has been successful in Vietnam.
He suggested those directly involved in the project payattention to spreading the model to generate jobs, increase income and improvethe lives of AO victims.
So far, the project has successfully trained fouragricultural engineers and six health care staff. The clean vegetablecultivation is being piloted on a total area of over 1,000 sq.m in the village.The harvested products will be sold directly to consumers, and the revenue willbe reinvested to create a research and learning centre for AO victims in thecity and neighbouring localities.
HozumiAraki, Director of vocational training at the project, suggested creatingconditions for the disabled to seek, maintain and return to employment; foster self-employment and entrepreneurialspirit, develop cooperatives and recruit the disabled in the publicsector through appropriate policies and measures./.
