On an area of 10 square metres in a narrow alley on Sai Gon riverbank is a special classroom which has operated for more than 20 years making literary dreams come true for many underprivileged children in the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Suffering from Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) since her birth has not stopped Nguyen Thi Thu Thuong, 33, from becoming a director of a vocational training centre for the handicapped.

 VietNamNet Bridge – First short films made by people with disabilities in Viet Nam were shown at Cong Nhan Theatre on April 2.

‘Chau, Beyond the Lines’, a documentary on Vietnamese Agent Orange victims, directed by Courtney Marsh, has been listed as of top 10 documentary short subject contenders for the 88th Academy Award.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Just 1,000 people with disabilities received vocational training and found employment over three years (2012-14), much lower than the 20,000 people who desired to do so.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Since most public infrastructure facilities are designed without the needs of people with disabilities in mind, their difficulties in traversing big city streets,

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 VietNamNet Bridge – People with disabilities should take heart from the stories of a nine-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy who have been helped to get on their feet by inspirational peers and free prosthetic limbs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Huynh Thanh Thao of Cu Chi District, HCM City, who has congenital brittle bone disease, was astonished to see a Youtube clip of a person in a wheelchair dancing together with a non-disabled partner.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced its 2014-18 Country Development Cooperation Strategy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Minh Hao, 22, used his arms to climb the stairs at a supermarket in District 9 with great difficulty.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Alongside a Vietnamese farmer, Lisa Huber bends her back to plant rice seedlings in the field. The Italian national is not on a tour designed for foreign tourists to discover the wet rice culture.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A pilot project has been launched to provide transport support services for people with disabilities in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Bourbon Street Jazz Festival” will begin on June 1 at Q4, 7 Nguyen Tat Thanh Street in District 4, promising to bring the sound and taste of Bourbon Street, New Orleans to HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Against the hustle and bustle of city traffic, a young boy is quietly putting up a large poster on an empty wall next to a restaurant.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nick Vujicic enjoyed meeting his Vietnamese fans at the While Palace Conventional Centre in Ho Chi Minh City on May 22.

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