HA NOI — President Nguyen Minh Triet has thanked humanitarian organisations for their care of and support to orphaned and disabled children in Viet Nam.
Receiving representatives of the Viet Nam Association for the Support of Disabled Children yesterday, Triet said its effort had given underprivileged children more opportunities to integrate into society.
He urged humanitarian organisations, especially the association, to keep pace with their work as there were thousands of affected youngsters nationwide.
The association was founded in 1993 to gather support, physical and financial, from the community to provide disabled children with functional rehabilitation, medical treatment and vocational training.
It had established 36 relief centres and helped more than 600,000 children during the last 16 years. About 1,200 children have learned necessary skills and work in various companies.
The association had also performed surgical operations on children in Laos and Cambodia.
Computer training for the blind and surgery for disabled children will be the main activities of the association’s HCM City branch until the year-end.
The association reviewed it activities so far this year and discussed future programmes and events in HCM City yesterday.
The association deputy chairman, Pham Hao Hon, said 100 children in the central province of Da Nang would receive health examinations and surgery this year.
Wheelchairs would be given next month to children in the northern provinces of Cao Bang and Tuyen Quang.
The association planned to acquire 10,000sq.m for a centre in HCM City’s Nha Be District to provide medical care, physical rehabilitation and vocational training for disabled children from the city and southern provinces.
With Sai Gon Commercial Bank sponsorship, the association had arranged surgery for 48 disabled children in Vinh Long, 29 in Binh Dinh and 49 in Nghe An provinces. —VNS
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