The event was co-organised by the Standing Agency of the National Steering Committee on the Settlement of Post-war Unexploded Ordnance and Toxic Chemical Consequences (Office 701) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

At the seminar, Director of USAID’s Environment and Social Development Office in Vietnam Christopher Abrams said the US over the time has teamed up with Vietnamese competent agencies to carry out various projects on war consequence settlement and support for AO/dioxin victims.

Director of USAID’s Environment and Social Development Office in Vietnam Christopher Abrams speaks at the event.

A project to support people with disabilities in seven localities follows the success of the previous cooperation projects between the countries, he said.

Abrams noted that as USAID has many experience in projects on health care, medical assistance and livelihoods for the disabled, the agency will help Vietnam ensure the efficient implementation of the project.

For his part, head of Office 701 Than Thanh Cong said the project aims to realise the memorandum of intent signed between the two agencies in April 2019.

Accordingly, USAID will grant 50 million USD to help Vietnam provide direct care, improve rehabilitation services, and develop social services to better serve people with disabilities in the central provinces of Quang Tri, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam and Binh Dinh, and southern Dong Nai, Binh Phuoc and Tay Ninh provinces.

Vietnam is currently home to about 8 million people with disabilities, accounting for 8 percent of the population. The figure stood at more than 163,000 in the seven localities of the project. Most of the victims are poor people and facing difficulties in getting access to livelihoods and employment.

Over 1.1 million poor households access preferential loans in 6 months

More than 1.15 million poor households and policy beneficiaries gained access to preferential loans in the first half of 2019, according to the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VPSP).

Photo exhibition raises funds for poor children

The annual exhibition entitled ‘Anh Sang Tu Tam’ (Light of Kindness) is taking place in Hanoi to raise funds for poor children.

Helping with livelihoods for poor women

(BGO) - Helping disadvantaged women with jobs and stable income to early escape poverty is the goal that the Women's Unions of all levels in Tan Yen district (Bac Giang province) set out in 2019. The material support, the provision of livelihood means, and the establishment of models and clubs to support women to escape poverty have been effectively implemented by many grassroots-level unions.

Vietnam cueist retains global rank despite poor World Cup show

Tran Quyet Chien is still among top three cueists in the world after early exit from a recent world tournament.

3,000 poor people and policy beneficiaries receive free health checkup and medicine

(BGO) – The Red Cross Society in the northern province of Bac Giang and VinGroup’s Kind-Heart Foundation on May 13 co-hosted a programme to provide free health examination, consultation and medicine in Son Dong district to respond to the Humanitarian Month in 2019.

Source: VNA