All handicapped people to receive regular allowances

04:06, 18/06/2013

(ĐN)- Recently, Dong Nai Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development and Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped held a seminar to discuss plans to assist disabled people in Dong Nai in the period of 2013-2020.

(ĐN)- Recently, Dong Nai Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development and Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped held a seminar to discuss plans to assist disabled people in Dong Nai in the period of 2013-2020.

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23 handicapped people receive wheelchairs

Dong Nai targets to spend around VND898.4 million to provide regular allowances to all disabled people living in the province from now until 2020, build charity houses to 95 percent of the households having handicapped members, help 90 percent of children with disabilities to access social welfare, comprehensive education and health care services, etc.    

At the same day, the department in coordination with HCMC Poor Patients Sponsor Association and HCM city Lottery Company presented 23 wheelchairs worth VND3.9 million each to disabled people.

Reported by P. L