At the seminar (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Delegates at a seminar in Hanoi on April 12 suggestedpreferential loans should be accessible to people with disabilities as well asbusinesses employing the disabled.
Theyexplained that preferential loans exclusively for disabled people have remainedlimited.
Overthe past three years, vocational training and job generation for the disabledhave met a range of difficulties, they said, pointing to the loose coordinationamong competent agencies in this field.
Thedelegates called on the Government to continue to complete legal documents onthe disabled and create conditions for them to benefit from the State’spolicies.
Besides,all-level Party Committees and authorities should allocate resources from localbudgets and other legal funds to the disabled, they said.
Accordingto the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam has about 8million people with disabilities aged 5 years and over, with the majority ofthem (82.27 percent) living in rural areas.
Ofthe total, only 30 percent are working, mainly in the agro-forestry-fisherysector, with low income. Of note, up to 41.01 percent of the disabled aged fromsix years and above are illiterate and only 6.5 percent of them havecertificates or degrees.
Theseminar was jointly held by the ministry, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policiesand Japan’s Nippon Foundation. Within the framework of the event, there werepavilions displaying products and services of the disabled.-VNA
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