Saturday, May 2, 2015

Traditional craft enterprise for disabled people

We had the chance to stop at a charity project outside Halong Bay.  This project was started by the Clinton Foundation in partnership with a local group.  Disabled young people have often been left uneducated and without assistive technologies by poor families who can't afford to support them.  This project gives free schooling and job training for disabled young people.  They make and sell traditional crafts, everything from silk clothing to carved marble, embroidered art, to ceramics and laquer.  It's a huge project employing and helping many people.  One young man met one of our students, Sophie, who had an artificial leg.  He was really interested to see her leg and meet her.  He told us he was born just two years before they had polio vaccines here in Vuet Nam, and he had polio in both legs.  


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