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Article: Vietnamese Government Takes Care of Blind People: Officials
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 2, 1997
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The Vietnamese government has always attached great importance to
helping blind people in the country, senior Vietnamese officials
told
a regional meeting on the blind which ended here today.
Speaking at the two-day regional meeting of the World Blind Union
(WBU), Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Minister Tran Dinh
Hoan
said "Vietnam Blind Association (VBA) will get more experience in
expanding the association's activities, taking care of the blind,
and
helping to rehabilitate them and improving their education."
In a separate address to the meeting, VBA Chairman Dinh Thuyen
said that during the past five years, the VBA, with help from the
government, has granted 25.5 billion ...