Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Ph.D Vo Thi Hoang Yen - The journey to the 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award
Ph.D Vo Thi Hoang Yen Vietnam is one of the fastest rising economies in Southeast Asia. As in other newly-emergent economies, social services have sadly not kept pace with impressive economic growth. A social concern that is inadequately addressed involves the rights of persons with disabilities (PWDs). In recent years, government has enacted legislation for PWD protection and support services but...
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Progress Assessment Of Railway Access Regulation To PWDS
In the afternoon of 26th July 2018, representatives of National Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Transport, DRD and wheelchair users as well as people with visual impairment had a meeting about progress assessment of railway access regulation to PWDs. Representative from Ministry of Transport have issued regulation that are currently in place as effective as...
Friday, 20 July 2018
Training on “teamwork skill for management board and members of PWD’s club in Tay Ninh”
The training was organized on 19th-20th July 2018 funded by USAID in order to build capacity for 40 leaders and members of PWD’s Club at Dong Khoi Commune, Long Thanh Bac Commune and Ninh Son Ward. The training content was designed to be simple to meet the need to understand and apply teamwork skills for their activities. Through experiential games, from which to form lessons from their...
Sunday, 15 July 2018
Access To Public Works For People With Disabilities
To promote reasonable accommodation to public works that access to PWDs, 14th and 15th July 2018, DRD continue to hold the training on “Access to public works for PWDs” for 28 PWDs who are Niem Tin Club’s members, Canh Hien Commune, Van Canh Ward, Binh Dinh. After 2-day training, participants understand what accessible public works are, what are public works, how to survey accessible...
Saturday, 07 July 2018
The Best Way To Protect Our Own Rights And Benefits Is To Understand Law And Policy
"Mr.Hoa went to medical examination in 2010 with a disability rate of 81%, but on the certificate of disability recorded the level of “severe" instead of " particularly severe"; because he did not understand the law, he has been receiving 405,000vnd for allowance per month since 2013, instead of receiving 540,000 against Law of PWDs.” "Mr.Huong, whose eyes are dim, did the procedure to...
Friday, 06 July 2018
2 More Clubs Established In Tay Ninh Province
Continue receiving approval and support from Tay Ninh DOLISA, People's Committee of Long Thanh Bac Commune and Ninh Son Ward, PWD’s Club of these two provinces have received the decision to establish and launch on the morning of 5 and 6 July 2018. Launching ceremony had the participations included: Mr.Le Ngoc Ta – Member of Committee of Association for Protection of Children and...
Saturday, 30 June 2018
DISABILITY RESEARCH AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT NEWSLETTER JUNE 2018 >>Download full version Disability Research and Capacity Development (DRD) was established on December 3rd, 2005 under the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation. DRD functions as a non-governmental and non-profit organization and is operated by and for people with disabilities. DRD works alongside the community to create support...
Friday, 29 June 2018
Approved by Tay Ninh DOLISA, Dong Khoi Commune People's Committee with support from DRD and USAID, on 29th June 2018, PWD’s Club in Dong Khoi commune were officially established and launched under Decision No. 31/HBT of Association for Protection of PWDs and Children of Tay Ninh. Participating in the launching ceremony was Mr.Le Ngoc Ta, Mr.Mai Hung Long - Member of Committee of Association...
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Wheelchair donation ceremony and capital support to PWDS in DONG KHOI commune, TAY NINH Province
On the afternoon of 28th June 2018, sponsored by Fortitude Educational Foundation, project “Access For All” carried out to offer 7 wheelchairs, 2 shake wheelchairs and 5 fixed-term grants (each15 millionVND) for 14 economically disadvantaged PWDs who want to escape poverty and live better in Dong Khoi Commune, Chau Thanh District, Tay Ninh Province with a total budget of 120 millionVND. Attending...