The Hanoi Teacher Training College will launch a class for the hearing-impaired in Hanoi funded by Nippon Foundation on October 29.
Shuichi Ohno, Executive Director of the Nippon Foundation (NF) said at a press briefing on October 28 that this is the second class for disabled Vietnamese people that has been funded by the foundation. Earlier in 1999, the first education project for the disabled was carried out in the southern province of Dong Nai.
According to Ohno, the project aims to offer opportunities for the hearing-impaired to take junior and senior high school level classes. After the first project 15 handicapped people graduated from university so far.
Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of the NF said that the foundation has carried out many humanitarian activities in Vietnam since 1999 such as building a Centre for Independent Living (CIL) for the disabled, promoting the drawing up of a law on the disabled, donating artificial limbs for almost 45,000 war victims and disabled persons and supporting the building of schools.
The head of Hanoi CIL, Nguyen Hong Ha said that the law on the disabled which was approved by the National Assembly and will come into effect in January 2011, will help the disabled to integrate better into the community.
Since 2009, the NF has donated one million USD to the Hanoi CIL where serious disabled people benefit from many services such as personal coaching, learning independent living skills and joining in efforts to protect disabled people’s interests.
Ha said that at present, there are about 574,000 disabled people in Vietnam, accounting for about 0.7 percent of the over five-year-old population./.
Shuichi Ohno, Executive Director of the Nippon Foundation (NF) said at a press briefing on October 28 that this is the second class for disabled Vietnamese people that has been funded by the foundation. Earlier in 1999, the first education project for the disabled was carried out in the southern province of Dong Nai.
According to Ohno, the project aims to offer opportunities for the hearing-impaired to take junior and senior high school level classes. After the first project 15 handicapped people graduated from university so far.
Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of the NF said that the foundation has carried out many humanitarian activities in Vietnam since 1999 such as building a Centre for Independent Living (CIL) for the disabled, promoting the drawing up of a law on the disabled, donating artificial limbs for almost 45,000 war victims and disabled persons and supporting the building of schools.
The head of Hanoi CIL, Nguyen Hong Ha said that the law on the disabled which was approved by the National Assembly and will come into effect in January 2011, will help the disabled to integrate better into the community.
Since 2009, the NF has donated one million USD to the Hanoi CIL where serious disabled people benefit from many services such as personal coaching, learning independent living skills and joining in efforts to protect disabled people’s interests.
Ha said that at present, there are about 574,000 disabled people in Vietnam, accounting for about 0.7 percent of the over five-year-old population./.
