Disability
VNHIP’s initial focus was on the health and wellbeing of disabled children in Hoi An orphanage through its physiotherapy and education program in cooperation with some other organizations. Later, VNHIP extended this project to help the poor people with heart defects. From 2010 to 2017, VNHIP has sponsored 120 successful surgical cases in the Central Vietnam.
Another long-term commitment of VNHIP is to support the shelter in Hoi An to provide medicine, health care, physiotherapy and rehabilitation devices for more than 90 people with disabilities at the shelter in Quang Nam.
Since 2018, VNHIP has been working with many schools in Quang Nam province to promote 160 children with disabilities to better access inclusive education. VNHIP is also working with Da Nang Department of Health in Integrated Rehabilitation of people with leprosy-related disability in Da Nang City.
Goal
Target groups
The target group is the people with disabilities, especially ethnic minority people, including children with disabilities who are attending in the special and inclusive schools.
VNHIP’s initial focus was on the health and wellbeing of disabled children in Hoi An orphanage through its physiotherapy and education program in cooperation with some other organizations. Later, VNHIP extended this project to help the poor people with heart defects. From 2010 to 2017, VNHIP has sponsored 120 successful surgical cases in the Central Vietnam.
Another long-term commitment of VNHIP is to support the shelter in Hoi An to provide medicine, health care, physiotherapy and rehabilitation devices for more than 90 people with disabilities at the shelter in Quang Nam.
Since 2018, VNHIP has been working with many schools in Quang Nam province to promote 160 children with disabilities to better access inclusive education. VNHIP is also working with Da Nang Department of Health in Integrated Rehabilitation of people with leprosy-related disability in Da Nang City.
Goal
- • To improve the quality of life of people with disabilities and their families by facilitating access to the health, education, livelihood and social sectors.
- • To facilitate the empowerment of people with disabilities and their families by promoting their inclusion and participation in development and decision-making processes.
- • To ensure children with disability in Quang Nam are in primary and secondary schools attaining quality inclusive education
Target groups
The target group is the people with disabilities, especially ethnic minority people, including children with disabilities who are attending in the special and inclusive schools.
Approach
The project has four strategic domains:
The project has four strategic domains:
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Governance: Support people with disabilities to establish their own civil society organizations named Disabled People’s Organizations (DPO). The DPOs promote full participation of the people with disabilities in decision-making process to tackle the inequitable distribution of power and resource.
Education and Life-skill development: Build confidence, pride and life-skills of the people with disabilities. The project support children with disability to go to the mainstreaming schools (inclusive education).
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Health: Improve accessibility to health care services including physical therapy and mental health care. For the people with structural heart defects, VNHIP works with the hospitals in the Central Vietnam to provide assessment and counseling for them to make decision.
Livelihood: Improve the quality of life through better living conditions, job, income, food security, nutrition, water supply, sanitation, etc.
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