The Hanoitimes - According to Doctor Nguyen Dinh Lieu, President of the Association for the Support of Vietnamese Handicapped and Orphans (ASVHO), the association has mobilized VND 12.4 billion to assist disabled people and orphans in disadvantaged regions across the country.
The Hanoitimes - According to Doctor Nguyen Dinh Lieu, President of the Association for the Support of Vietnamese Handicapped and Orphans (ASVHO), the association has mobilized VND 12.4 billion to assist disabled people and orphans in disadvantaged regions across the country.
The information was announced during a press conference on the program “One heart, one world” to raise funds for disabled children, held by ASVHO and the Ministry of Labour, War-Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).
The humanitarian art program which will be broadcast live on national television on April 14 has been annually held since 2004.
This year, with some 300 delegates from 43 provinces and cities, the program will call on assistance from the community for disadvantaged people with disabilities and orphans in rural and remote regions
In 2011, the program mobilized VND 10 billion to buy wheelchairs and bicycles for disabled people and orphans, funded surgeries and helped care for disabled people and orphans in 38 communes.
According to Mr. Nguyen Trong An, deputy head of the Department for Child Protection and Care under MOLISA, there are currently over 1.3 million disabled children across the country.
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