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Dr. Hoang-Yen Thi Vo

Thursday, 19 December 2019

Dr. Hoang-Yen Thi Vo

Dr. Hoang-Yen Thi VoDisability Research and Capacity DevelopmentVietnam Dr. Hoang-Yen Thi Vo is a tireless activist for the rights of people with disabilities in Vietnam, a social worker and disability educator for colleges, GOs, and NGOs with projects or programs on disability, and consultant for several disability-related community programs. In 2005, Yen founded the Disability Research and Capacity...

The 2019 Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards recognize 10 global innovators for their extraordinary accomplishments.

Friday, 06 December 2019

The 2019 Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards recognize 10 global innovators for their extraordinary accomplishments.

The Viscardi Center announced ten recipients of the 2019 Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards on December 5 at a ceremony at the Mutual of America building in New York City. First bestowed in 2013, the awards honor leaders in the global disability community who, through the example of their professional accomplishments and advocacy efforts, are shifting societal perceptions and significantly...

Học bổng kỹ thuật viên lập trình FUNIX

Tuesday, 03 December 2019

Học bổng kỹ thuật viên lập trình FUNIX

ĐĂNG KÝ NHẬN 40 SUẤT HỌC BỔNG TRƯỜNG MÂY ĐĂNG KÝ LIỀN TAY: Học online chủ động, học cùng chuyên gia và đảm bảo chất lượng với cam kết việc làm sau khi hoàn thành chứng chỉ tương đương Theo Thỏa thuận hợp tác về đào tạo nguồn nh...

Vo Thi Hoang Yen Vietnam (2001 cohort) Master’s in Community Development University of Kansas, U.S. 

Monday, 21 October 2019

Vo Thi Hoang Yen Vietnam (2001 cohort) Master’s in Community Development University of Kansas, U.S. 

Vo Thi Hoang Yen was diagnosed with polio at the age of three while living in a remote rice farming village in Vietnam. Despite earning two bachelor’s degrees, Vo felt “helpless” in her search for a job because of the stigmatization and discrimination that she faced due to her disability. “I wanted to change the perception that people with disabilities were incapable, helpless...

Expert on how Vietnam can be more disabled-friendly

Saturday, 24 August 2019

Expert on how Vietnam can be more disabled-friendly

Vo Thi Hoang Yen sits in a room talking to volunteers of Center for Disability Research & Capacity Development. Photo: Tu Trung / Tuoi Tre A physically challenged Vietnamese woman has pointed out the difficulties people with disabilities have to face in the country, which she believes lacks a supportive environment for the disabled. Vo Thi Hoang Yen, 53, is a native in Nhon Trach District in Dong...

Catalysing leaders in the fight against social injustice

Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Catalysing leaders in the fight against social injustice

In Vietnam, thousands of people with disabilities who might once have been invisible in their communities are going to work and to school. In Ghana, where domestic violence has historically been seen as both a stigma and a private matter to be handled by family, gender-based violence courts are making it easier for women and children to seek legal recourse through the judicial system. And...

High school football coach with no arms or legs delivers uplifting speech at ESPYs

Thursday, 11 July 2019

High school football coach with no arms or legs delivers uplifting speech at ESPYs

Rob Mendez loves football and refused to let anything get in the way of his dream of becoming a coach. Rob Mendez, a football coach at Prospect High School in Saratoga, California, accepts the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday.     Getty Images Rob Mendez, a high school football coach who was born without arms or legs, delivered a speech that...

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Monday, 22 April 2019

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