The lack of documents in Braille and audio books, as well as few sign language speakers limits blind people's development, according to Pham Viet Thu, President of the Vietnam Blind Association.
The Vietnam Blind Association and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Siloam Centre for the Blind on October 7 signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in a project to support the blind in Vietnam in 2019.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front and other socio-political organisations should promote communications work and mobilise resources to better support blind people, helping them improve their livelihoods and well integrate into society, a senior Party official said.
Advanced International JSC (AIC) has launched a free application named “9999 Tet,” helping users, especially visually-impaired people, access information about the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.
More than 3,500 out of over 1 million blind people in Vietnam have used computer proficiently for the work and daily life, President of the Vietnam Blind Association Pham Viet Thu noted at a conference on solutions to information technology (IT) development for the blind in Hanoi on March 13.
Veteran writer Nguyen Nhat Anh’s books in Braille versions will be printed and released soon by Nguyen Dinh Chieu School for the Blind in Hanoi to serve its students.
Two teams of blind young people living in a HCM City shelter have created websites for job search and providing resume consultancy targeted at blind people that have won funding from a UNICEF program.
As many as 48 outstanding blind people were honoured at the second National Patriotic Emulation Congress of the Vietnam Blind Association (VBA) which was held in Hanoi on September 8.
A workshop on forging affiliation between the Vietnam Blind Association
(VBA) and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) was held in
Hanoi on June 16.
The International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment
(ICEVI) presented the Vietnam Blind Association with a number of
schooling documents, for the blind.
The first ever festival for the blind opened in Hanoi on April 17 to
honour the blind’s contribution to the society as well as encourage
them to continue dedicate to the country’s development.
Non-State bodies will for the first time be eligible for legal
assistance ODA if they submit successful applications to the Justice
Initiative Facilitation Fund (JIFF).
JIFF, which
has a budget of 1.7 million EURO (2.2 million USD) up until June 2015,
is a joint programme organised by the Ministry of Justice, the European
Union and the embassies of Sweden and Denmark.
The Vietnam Blind Association (VBA) has
presented 1,717 Tet gifts, worth over 515 million VND, sourced from
State President Nguyen Minh Triet’s donation, to the blind nationwide.
Developing policies for disabled people
was the subject of a meeting held to review the last 10 years of the
poverty reduction campaign held by the Vietnam Blind Association (VBA)
in Hanoi on Aug. 5.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet has confirmed that the Party and State always create the best possible conditions for blind people to ease difficulties in their lives.
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