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Member news, April 2016: Da Lat City Association of People with Disabilities

After the congress, the association reported the congress results to the Lam Dong provincial Department of Home Affairs in accordance with Decree No. 45/2010/ND-CP of 21 April 2010 on the organisation, operation and management of associations. The association has consolidated its organisation and assigned specific tasks to members of the Executive Committee. It has issued working regulations for the Executive Committee and internal rules for the association.

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To mark Vietnamese Day for People with Disabilities on 18 April 2016, the association joined with mass organisations and schools in Da Lat city to hold an art exchange with the theme “HEARTS FULL OF ASPIRATION”. Its content was to praise the Party and Uncle Ho, praise love for the homeland, and encourage people with disabilities to rise up. The exchange evening was a great success.
On 14 April, representatives of the association’s Standing Executive Committee attended the 3rd conference to seek agreement on electing delegates to the Da Lat City People’s Council.
The association sent members of the Executive Committee to a workshop on building strategic plans for local associations, and a workshop on building a model “Monitoring report by associations/groups of people with disabilities in Vietnam on the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities”, organised by the Vietnam Federation on Disability (VFD) in cooperation with the ACDC Centre.

This month, the association received 100 gifts for its members from a charity group led by Venerable Thich Quang Tanh – from Can Tho city.
During the month, the association visited and gave gifts to seven members who were ill and in hospital for treatment.

With the approval and permission of the Da Lat city Department of Culture and Information, at 7 p.m. on 30 April the association will hold an art evening with the theme “ONE SHARED HEART”, 7th edition, in Da Lat city. Its purpose is to raise funds to help Mr. Than Trong Quoc Vuong, a member of the association in particularly difficult circumstances who is seriously ill and has no money for treatment, so that he has money for treatment.

Chairman of the Association

Tran Manh Thu