Kien Giang province on August 29 gave
50 wheelchairs to the disabled in Cambodia’s Kep province and granted
scholarships worth 2,000 USD to the Cambodian students.
The Hanoi Independent Living Centre for
the Disabled began a new training course for disabled people to help
them become more confident when taking part in social activities and
get more out of their lives on Aug. 24.
As the capital works to expand
pre-school networks it also aims to lift education standards and reduce
malnutrition among young children, said the municipal Department of
Education and Training.
Disabled Vietnamese swimmers set four
ASEAN Para Games records as Vietnam secured third on the medal tally at
the games which closed in Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 19.
The lack of specialised teachers is the
biggest hurdle for the integration of disabled children into pre-school
education, according to participants at a seminar.
The improvement of population quality
is one of the major tasks set out in Vietnam’s Population Strategy
through 2020, demographer Duong Quoc Trong said at a press conference
in Hanoi, on August 20.
The Corporation for Financing and
Promoting Technology (FPT) will grant 300 scholarships to children
affected by Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin in the war-torn central province
of Quang Tri through 2012.
Despite being bound to a wheelchair,
Australian Peter Mills has been helping the victims of Agent Orange in
Vietnam by rolling his way around the country.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet
highly praised the authorities of the northern province of Lao Cai for
their part in achieving an 11 percent GDP growth rate despite the
global economic crisis.
Vietnamese AO victims’ ongoing struggle
for justice will be successful, said State President Nguyen Minh Triet
at a charity art progamme entitled “ Justice and Heart” held in Hanoi
on August 8.
Humanitarian activities are, first,
deeds of compassion, but then take on greater significance in the
political and social arenas, bringing joy to unfortunate families, said
President Nguyen Minh Triet.
The Vietnam News Agency has sent 20.5
million VND in aid to 25 Agent Orange/dioxin victims nationwide and
built a house valued at 15 million VND for a victim’s family in
southern Tien Giang province.
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.
Six officials of the Ministries of
Transport, Health and Public Security and the National Committee for
Traffic Safety are attending a training course on traffic safety which
will run in Washington DC and Phoenix city of Arizona State until July
17.
Vietnam will host the Presidential and
Secretary General’s meeting of the Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN)’s
humanitarian associations over August 13-14.
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
