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April 15, 2008
HCMC plans job fund for handicapped-Vietnum
We informed about the new measure against employment promotion in Hanoi on April 14, 2008.
Today we would like to introduce you the following news from Ho Chi Minh City.
It was downloaded from the mailing list of "Disability and Development" with a cooperation of the publisher, Mr. Soya Mori.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee plans to set up a job fund to assist the city’s 57,315 handicapped people.
Local authorities said documents to establish the city’s first-ever job fund for the handicapped would be completed by April 15.
The fund will help the city meet its aim of improving the life of handicapped people, who make up about 0.87 percent of HCMC’s population.
Under its handicapped care policies, HCMC has set itself a target of ensuring that within two years, 70 percent of the city’s handicapped have access to health care, all handicapped children attend school for free, all public facilities are handicapped-friendly and 25 percent of handicapped people have the chance to play sport.
Reported by Huu Phuoc - M.Duc
http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=37570
Posted by jicafriends at April 15, 2008 11:29 AM