Over recent years, Da Nang has offered practical help to disabled people to overcome their physical or mental health difficulties in order to integrate into the community.

Providing sewing machines for local disabled people

In particular, since 2013, hundreds of disabled people have been able to access the revolving fund of the Da Nang Association of Disabled People to make loans of 5 million VND at interest rates of 0% for 12 months.

Since 2017, the Association has joined forces with the International Committee of the Red Cross MoveAbility Foundation and the municipal Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital to provide assistive devices for the disabled in coastal localities from Quang Binh to Quang Ngai provinces. Included were splints, prosthetics, canes, crutches, and orthotic tools.

To date, a total of 291 disabled people in these coastal localities, including 68 from Da Nang, have enjoyed benefits from this programme.

Recently, the Association has given means of livelihood, worth 5 million VND each, to 10 local disabled people in a bid to help them increase their incomes.

Under the support from the Hoa Tho Textiles and Garment Company, the Association has donated sewing machines, totalling over 60 million VND, to 20 its members.

Notably, the Association has organised vocational training courses for its members to help them find suitable jobs, as well as to assist them to repair their downgraded houses.

In addition, the city authorities have issued many preferential policies for people with disabilities such as discounts on tickets for cultural, entertainment, sports, and tourism services in the locality, and designing special ways and necessary services at public areas for the disabled.

During this year, the city developed a plan on supporting people with disabilities with a focus on granting monthly allowances and health insurance cards for people with severe and extremely severe disabilities, as well as funding the costs of their burial services.

Also, homeless people with extremely severe disabilities will be taken to the city’s Social Support Centre. All of poor or social policy families with disabled people will be given a helping hand to repair their downgraded houses or rebuilt new ones.

Moreover, heed will be paid to providing regular vocational training courses and suitable means of livelihood for people with disabilities, as well as facilitating them to access the association’s revolving fund.