Thanks to the attention and help of the community, authorities at all levels…, the lives of disable people across the province have so far been improved. This is also a driving force for them to further rise up in life.
Helping the disabled stabilize their lives
Nguyen Thi Dien, chairwoman of provincial Association for
Sponsorship of Disable People, Orphans and Poor Patients said that the local
functional agencies over time paid attention to the vocational training and job
creation work for disable people. 
Phu Nhuan
Technical Construction Joint Stock Co.
presenting gifts to the blind
Provincial Association for the Blind was a typical example for the above-mentioned thing. The association regularly organized classes on massage, broom making…for its members. In 2011 alone, the association opened one more massage facility and one more bamboo toothpick-making facility to generate jobs for its members.
Members of the association now enjoy the average income of VND2mln per capita per month. The association also disbursed a total loan of more than VND848mln from 14 projects. Upon this, the whole association only has 77 poor households or 10.23% of total.
Whilst, provincial Vocational Training School for the Disabled has always combined vocational training with job creation. The school now provides training for 7 skills: hairdressing, computer, electricity, garment-textile…
Sharing efforts in taking care of the disabled
In 2011, provincial Association for Sponsorship of Disable People, Orphans and Poor Patients mobilized donors to subscribe VND7.3bln to its fund; granted 155 wheelchairs worth over VND496mln to poor patients and disable people; provided cataract surgeries for 350 cases with a total expense of VND280mln; gave vocational training to 157 disable people and introduced jobs to 27 others…
Provincial Red Cross Society over time also paid more attention to disable people. On the occasion of Tet 2012, provincial Red Cross Societies at all levels mobilized organizations and donors to present Tet gifts worth more than VND7bln to children and ethnic people with difficult circumstances during the charity program named “Tet for the poor, the disabled and Agent Orange victims”.
Under the campaign “Each organization, each individual should stick to a humanitarian address”, the “Action month for Agent Orange victims”, provincial Red Cross Societies at all levels last year visited and presented gifts worth VND280mln to more than 4,000 turns of people; built and handed over 7 compassion houses worth VND180mln to disadvantaged people.
Reported by Thu Thao-Translated by K.T
