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Thousands walk for AO victims, people with disabilities
Thousands walk for AO victims, people with disabilities
11/8/19
More than 5,000 volunteers of the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRC) as well as local residents participated in a fundraising walk for Agent Organge (AO)/Dioxin victims and impoverished people with disabilities in Ho Chi Minh City on August 10.
The walk formed part of a month-long campaign launched by the VNRC in support of AO victims and the disabled that began on August 5. The event has been annually held for 13 consecutive years, conveying the message “Do Not Forget Them,” to raise funds for better care of these people.
Speaking at the event, chairman of the HCM City Red Cross Society Tran Truong Son said the city is currently home to close to 4,700 veterans directly exposed to Agent Orange during the war and 688 children of these victims alongside more than 56,600 people with disabilities.
In recent years, the HCM City Red Cross has provided various support for these people in terms of healthcare, education, legal assistance, soft loan provision, house repair, scholarship and more to help them have a better life, Son said.
Many AO victims and disabled people still struggle to make ends meet every day so they need sharing and support from the society, he added.
Last year the HCM City Red Cross has spent more than 1 billion VND (44,000 USD) on presenting gift packages, wheel chairs and breeding cows and helping repair houses for over 2,000 AO victims.
On the same day, about 400 AO victims received free medical checkups and medicines in Thuong Kiem commune, Kim Son district, the northern province of Ninh Binh during a charity event to mark the Day for AO/Dioxin Victims (August 10) and the 58th year of the Agent Orange Disaster (August 10, 1961).
The event was joined by 40 doctors and nurses from the Hanoi-based Vietnam – Germany Hospital./.
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The victims needed more assistance including healthcare, education, job training and orientation for their future while the hospital was able to provide them healthcare.
Every day, some three million Agent Orange and dioxin victims in Vietnam struggle to survive, living their lives with incurable wounds.
Since 2004, more than 85 billion VND (3.65 million USD) has been allocated by public and social organisations to support families of Agent Orange/dioxin victims in production, housing, education, healthcare and vocational training.
Vietnamese AO victims require US chemical companies that provided herbicides to the US troops during the war to be responsible for helping, supporting, and overcoming the consequences caused by the chemical damage to Vietnamese people and the environment.
International and Vietnamese scientists conducted many practical tests and had direct contact with witnesses, and made verification activities at Bien Hoa, Phu Cat, Chu Lai, and Da Nang airports to support detoxification and cleaning the environment there.
Thanks to comprehensive treatment and healthcare, some 100 victims have seen improvements.
The US army sprayed some 80 million litres of toxic chemicals, 61 percent of which was Agent Orange containing 366 kilograms of dioxin, over nearly one quarter of the total area of South Vietnam from 1961 to 1971.
Who has violated human rights through this issue of AO?
Preliminary statistics showed that 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to AO/dioxin, and about 3 million people became victims.
Tens of thousands of people have died while millions of others have suffered from cancer and other incurable diseases as consequences of exposure. Many of their offspring have also suffered from birth deformities.
The Party and State of Vietnam have issued many policies to support the victims that should be added to human rights record.
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