Activities
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Self-advocacy for People with Disabilities
On 26/11/2016, Supports for Students with Disability Project organized a sharing session on building self-advocacy skills for students with disabilities. The session created a friendly environment where students can express their opinions and share their experiences. It aimed to equip students with disabilities necessary skills and confidence to ask other people when they needed helps. Students gathered...
Friday, 30 September 2016
Students of An Giang University would like to have a club for their activities
The Project “Support for students with disabilities” helped students with disabilities from An Giang University start a club for their common activities. “To live is to endure storming days with a head held high.” Although nobody wants an impaired body, some of us have to suffer from disabilities from birth . However, they do not take their differences as an excuse to surrender...
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Student with disabilities at Crescent Mall
To most of people, going shopping at a mall is just a regular daily activity. However, many students with disabilities said that they had never even gotten a chance to go to a mall. That is an enthusiasm in our team, which is now run under the project “Support for students with disabilities,” which is a plan for students with disabilities to tour Crescent Mall District 7 on July 10th, as...
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Discussing How to write e-mail effectively
A workshop on how to write e-mails effectively was carried out by Supporting Students with Disabilities Project on June 5th and June 25th, 2016 in order to help students improve their communication skills through e-mail. In the age information technology, using e-mails is extremely popular and necessary, especially for the youth. Most participants shared that they often use e-mails to assist them...
Sunday, 06 March 2016
Making a Personal plan training
On the Sunday morning, 6/3/2016, the project Support for Students with disabilities (DRD) organized a training session with topic: “Developing personal plan” with participaants of 20 students with disabilities and volunteers. Mr. Nguyen Van Cu – Vice President of DRD center is trainer for this program. Mr. Nguyen Van Cu – Vice Director of DRD shared After a short time contact...
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
An experience at shopping centre
To most of people, going to a supermarket is just a regular daily activity. However, many students with disabilities (SWDs) shared that they had never been to a shopping centre before. This was the reason our team of the project “support for SWDs” decided to plan a visiting tour to a shopping mall on the last January 1st. The entrance to Vincom Mega Mall Thao Dien, District 2. Our group...
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
On January 10, 2016, the project of supporting students with disabilities of DRD along with Toa Tau organized a painting workshop for people with disabilities (PWD). This program took place at the An Dien center for PWD (Thu Duc District). There were a lot of interesting activities. The first one was to paint each other. The participants were paired and they had to draw their partner in 4 different...
Saturday, 19 December 2015
Meeting of students with disabilities
In the morning of the 19th December 2015, the team for the project “support for students with disabilities (SWDs) organized a meeting with 20 participants, including SWDs and volunteers from the different universities and colleges in HCMC. The meeting took place at Disability Research and Capacity Development center– DRD. The aim of the meeting was to introduce the project of support for...
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Nguyen Le Hoang Trung received an electronic wheelchair from Dr.Thien
Nguyen Le Hoang Trung received an electronic wheelchair from Dr.Thien In April 2015, we were informed by a youth with disability, Nguyen Le Hoang Trung, who are student at final year at Ho Chi Minh University of Sciences and also one of beneficiaries at DRD, that he would like to propose an award of 40 million VND for DRD’s 1forChange campaign. This award was given to Trung thanks...