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19321
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Project to minimise discrimination against disabled people
Hanoi(VNA) - Minimising discrimination against physically-challenged people to enable them to fully integrate into society is the purpose of a project to be carried out soon.
The project, jointly developed by the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Party
Central Committee's Commission for Education and Propaganda and the Research
Institute for Social Development Studies, will address the problem for 13
million people with disabilities in Vietnam.
The Research Institute for Social Development Studies reported that
discrimination against disabled persons is found in family, community,
workplace, education, marriage and child-bearing, citing its survey at Red
river delta Thai Binh province, central Da Nang city, central Quang Nam
province and southern Dong Nai province.
It also reported that 74 percent of families with disabled members are
stricken by hardship. Only 25.45 percent of disabled people aged above 15
are employed, 33.7 percent of disabled people who were formerly employed are
out of work, and 40.9 percent of disabled people have never been recruited.
Accordingly, project developers have set to raise awareness of Party, State
agencies, local authorities and the community on negative impacts of
prejudice and discrimination on the grounds of disability to assist
disadvantaged people to actively get involved in community activities.
They seek to ensure support from Party, State agencies and social
organisations to minimise ill treatments toward people with disabilities,
providing them with favourable conditions so they can make worthy
contributions to their families, the community and at work place as well.
This is an extremely significant effort, Charles Bailey, Director of a
special program on dioxin of the Ford Foundation said, mentioning the
development of the project.
He pointed to the reality that Orange Orange/Dioxin victims and their
families have been discriminated more often than victims of other
disabilities. - Enditem
The project, jointly developed by the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Party
Central Committee's Commission for Education and Propaganda and the Research
Institute for Social Development Studies, will address the problem for 13
million people with disabilities in Vietnam.
The Research Institute for Social Development Studies reported that
discrimination against disabled persons is found in family, community,
workplace, education, marriage and child-bearing, citing its survey at Red
river delta Thai Binh province, central Da Nang city, central Quang Nam
province and southern Dong Nai province.
It also reported that 74 percent of families with disabled members are
stricken by hardship. Only 25.45 percent of disabled people aged above 15
are employed, 33.7 percent of disabled people who were formerly employed are
out of work, and 40.9 percent of disabled people have never been recruited.
Accordingly, project developers have set to raise awareness of Party, State
agencies, local authorities and the community on negative impacts of
prejudice and discrimination on the grounds of disability to assist
disadvantaged people to actively get involved in community activities.
They seek to ensure support from Party, State agencies and social
organisations to minimise ill treatments toward people with disabilities,
providing them with favourable conditions so they can make worthy
contributions to their families, the community and at work place as well.
This is an extremely significant effort, Charles Bailey, Director of a
special program on dioxin of the Ford Foundation said, mentioning the
development of the project.
He pointed to the reality that Orange Orange/Dioxin victims and their
families have been discriminated more often than victims of other
disabilities. - Enditem
