Activities
Monday, 07 January 2019
People with disabilities and Love
It was the topic of the peer-counseling session conducted by students with disabilities who are the beneficiaries of the DRD’s mentoring and scholarship program on 16 December 2018. Peer-counseling has become an important activity to help students with disabilities to be confident, rebuild relationships, and be able to live independently. Sessions was taken place in an open, sincere, trusting...
Monday, 03 December 2018
A student with disability won the contest “Books and Life season 2”
On the morning of November 24, 2018, the final round of "Books and life season 2" was taken place at the Nguyen Van Binh book street. The contest was implemented from March to the end of September 2018, attracting the attention of many young people. Candidates have experienced 2 parts: raising the role of books in life and presenting values about favorite books. Participating in the...
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Accessibility audit at Landmark 81 building
On the 21st of October 2018, the members of the DRD’s program “scholarship and mentoring”organised a visit trip and accessibility audit at Landmark 81 building, 208 Nguyen Huu Canh road, Binh Thanh district, Ho Chi Minh city. The trip was to create opportunities to practice their soft-skills and conduct an accessibility audit. There were 26 participants including awarded students...
Thursday, 31 May 2018
DRD Scholarships - The Opening Road With A Great Opportunity
Le Thi Le Quyen was born in an agricultural family of parents and three sisters, in a poor village in Phu Yen province. Quyen was normal when she was young, but after a fever, Quyen's legs gradually shrank to the knees which made it difficult for her to walk. However, Quyen has overcome fate. In 2017, Quyen was accepted to the University of Pedagogy of Ho Chi Minh City and study Japanese. Quyen then...
Sunday, 27 May 2018
Mentoring Scholarship group went to Saigon Zoo to visit and did accessibility survey
On the morning of Sunday, 27th May 2018, students from Mentoring Scholarship group went to Saigon Zoo to exchange, make opportunity to understand each other; and they also visited and did accessibility survey as well. After going around Saigon Zoo and get into some places, Mentoring Scholarship group shared their opinion and noted the petition to send to Saigon Zoo’s Management Board in having...
Friday, 27 April 2018
Turns out love is not difficult and peace is so simple
The course Mindfulness – based Transformation (MT61 - 7, 8, 9 April 2018) was an unforgettable experience to me. I was occupied by the same feelings throughout the course – the feelings that had been long buried and were only realized at the end of the 3-day course. 3 days was too short of a time but I felt like I received a lot. I came to the realization that I had missed many things in...
Sunday, 15 April 2018
Assessment on Ham Nghi bus stop (District 1) April 15, 2018
At 7:30 am on 18 April 2018, DRD scholarship group arrived and started their assessment on the bus station of Ham Nghi (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) regarding their disabled-accessibility. This new bus station is to serve travelers in central Saigon, officially launched in replacement for Ben Thanh bus station during the construction of Metro 1 underground train station. The assessors were divided...
Friday, 23 March 2018
DRD’s fellowship group meeting in March
In the morning of 25th March, 2018, at DRD’s training room, 12 DRD’s scholarship students participated the meeting to prepare for Ham Nghi bus station survey which is going to take place on 15th April, 2018. Overview of meeting Besides, they’ve planned for the next months: - Survey and visit Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden (Thao Cam Vien) on 20th May, 2018. - Peer counseling on 24th...
Sunday, 21 January 2018
2018 New-Year Meeting of scholarship students
On 21 January 2018, a meeting of 10 scholarship students had been arranged from 8:30 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. at DRD headquarters to evaluate the 6-month plan in 2017 and discuss the new plan for 2018 before Tet holiday. Overview of the meeting The scholarship students were thinking in retrospect about their mutual goals in 2017. Throughout the meeting, the students talked about their life stories,...