(VOV) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on April 6 joined thousands in a charitable walk in HCM City to support people with disabilities.
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The event aims to encourage people from all walks of life to recognize the need to care for and assist disabled people to better integrate into the community.
PM Dung spoke highly of the Party committee and Fatherland Front’s support for the disabled at the grassroots levels, and suggested more should be accomplished to aid the disabled.
In spite of significant progress, many families with disabled members are faced with numerous challenges, exacerbated by the inability to find satisfactory employment or obtain a good education, Dung said.
Over the years, the Party and State has invested heavily and introduced many social policies to promote the rights of people with disabilities and encourage them to become active and contributing members of society.
The legal scheme for people with disabilities is gradually taking shape and localities are creating much improved conditions for the disabled and orphans to better and more fully live their lives.
Social work for the disabled has made significant progress as well. The disabled are now provided with health insurance cards to secure decent health care, and many more are now being afforded competent legal assistance.
They also now have more ready access to office buildings, retail establishments, public transportation and entertainment facilities for cultural, sporting and educational events thanks to programmes designed to remove barriers they once faced gaining access to public buildings and transport services.
PM Dung urged relevant authorities to further complete the legal scheme for disabled people, especially in areas related to vocational training, employment, education, and health care.
He asked ministries, departments, domestic and foreign organisations and individuals and international friends to pay more attention to the needs of the disabled and to heed particular attention to the needs of the truly disadvantaged disabled orphans.
Vietnam has around 6.7 million disabled people, including 3.6 million women and 1.2 million children, 5 million of which live in rural areas.
Đăng ký: VietNam News