Over 220 wheelchairs were offered to the disabled in Khanh Hoa Province on September 13. The event was held by Lawrence S. Ting Memorial Fund (Ho Chi Minh City) in association with Khanh Hoa Provincial Sponsoring Association for the Disabled, Orphans & Poor Patients, the Khanh Hoa Department of Labor, Invalids & Social Affairs....
Over 220 wheelchairs were offered to the disabled in Khanh Hoa Province on September 13. The event was held by Lawrence S. Ting Memorial Fund (Ho Chi Minh City) in association with Khanh Hoa Provincial Sponsoring Association for the Disabled, Orphans & Poor Patients and Khanh Hoa Department of Labor, Invalids & Social Affairs.
The charity activity has helped people with disability to enhance daily life and integrate into the community.
“I am happy to receive a new wheelchair. It will help me to live a more independent life. I can earn my living by selling lottery tickets,” Le Manh Hung (Dien Dong Commune, Dien Khanh District) says at Khanh Hoa Provincial Social Service Center (96 2-4 Street, Nha Trang City). Hung’s father died young. His mother is old and suffering from a kidney disease. His family lives on a monthly allowance and Hung’s small income.
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| Representatives and disabled poeple at the ceremony of offering wheelchairs. |
The polio made 43-year-old Nguyen Huu Dong (Vinh Nguyen Ward, Nha Trang City) disabled at the age of 3. “My family is poor. I have long dreamed of a wheelchair, so that I can travel on my own to help my parents with daily work,” he says.
According to Trinh Thi Hop, Deputy Chairperson of Khanh Hoa Department of Labor, Invalids & Social Affairs, there are 5,000 people with severe disability among 10,000 disabled people in Khanh Hoa. Some cannot afford wheelchairs.
Over the past years, authorities and sponsors, especially the Khanh Hoa Provincial Sponsoring Association for the Disabled have provided traveling facilities and other equipment for the disabled. Others are still in need of the support.
The donation from the Lawrence S. Ting Memorial Fund is really meaningful, helping enhance disabled people’s mobility to make their living easier as they can do daily tasks more comfortably and successfully.
Phan Khanh Duong, Chairman of the Lawrence S. Ting Memorial Fund says, “Founded in 2005, the fund is a social fund, which operates on the principle of self-sufficiency with the sponsorship and voluntary contributions of local and foreign individuals and organizations, offering support in health care and education. This is the first time the fund has been involved in providing wheelchairs for the disabled in Khanh Hoa Province, contributing to improve their life.
220 wheelchairs worth a total of VND357 million sponsored by Phu My Hung Corporation and the Lawrence S. Ting Memorial Fund. In addition, via the Lawrence S. Ting Memorial Fund, Phu My Hung Corporation has offered 22 computers, a projector and a microscope worth over VND230 million to Le Quy Don Gifted School (Nha Trang City) for the 2-year period (2007 - 2008).
Besides, since 2008, through Khanh Hoa Study Promotion Association, Phu My Hung Corporation and the Lawrence S. Ting Memorial Fund have donated VND220 million to poor students.
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