VIETNAM
Biography
Mission:
To enhance the full participation of and equal opportunities for PWDs in all spheres of society.
Goals:
- Enhancing the disability-equality awareness of society members and PWDs themselves.
- Building the capacity for orgs of PWDs to effectively accomplish their positive and active role of representative of PWDs.
- Developing the training courses on social work and disability.
Some achievements:
- To conduct 20 trainings on Disability Awareness for DPOs in the South Vietnam. More PWDs feel confident to integrate into society, especially to be full participation in their organizations.
- To built DPO's network in the South Vietnam and to consult for setting up DPOs in different provinces.
- Scholarship and Mentoring Program: 21 Students with disabilities receive full scholarship and to be the tutors for 21 children with serve disabilities.
- Social work: To help 40 social work students to practice before graduating.
- Employment: From 2006 to now, DRD have introduces 200 PWDs working in companies and factories.
- Events: To organize 3 events to celebrate National / International Disability Day.
* Unique 15,3%: 300 people with/without disability,
* One World For All: 500 people with/without disability,
* "The Sky is the limit" - evening performance by artists with disabilities.
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Dance
Biography
The members of the dance group are come from many provinces in Viet Nam.The ages ranged between 16 and 30. Right now we are only amateur artists because we are still the students in high school and university programs but we love art. We want to do it for fun and want to show that deaf people also have abilities about art as hearing people. We have some skills in dancing, drawing,fashion design... We often have different kind of arts in our ceremony every year. We are sometimes invited to performance outside our school or go to oversea for performance. Some of us want to become a professional artists in the future after we finish high school.
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Dong Nai college is the first school in Viet Nam that provide a full high school program and the only school provide university program for deaf students in Viet Nam. There are 25 deaf student graduated senior high school (12 grade). There are 10 deaf students in certificated teacher training program now. The number of deaf students in the program is about 55 every year. Beside studying in high school, students also receive another training in art such as dancing, drawing, cooking, make up, make an artificial flower and computer.
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Biography
The Ambassadors of Light, founded in 2000 is the country's first non- government organization that caters to the needs of visually impaired children and young adults with a passion for music. Their talents find expression in the formal training they undergo in the choral music, given for free.
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His founder, Anderson Go, who became completely blind at the age of 12, established this foundation, the Anderson Go Arts Center which caters to young blind singers whom he patiently trains to be good singers and be able to perform in concerts. He is able to form his choir, the Ambassadors of Light. The group has started to get warm reception and accolade from a growing number of audiences.
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 Anderson Go, playing piano |
Personally, Anderson Go has been to different places in the world to perform as a pianist and singer like Japan, Taiwan, Australia, China, Korea and Singapore. He finished a degree in Bachelor of Science in Music at the Philippine Women's University and has earned masters degree units major in Music.
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8293318
Pottery, sculpture
Biography
The "art house" is located on the campus Nguyen Dinh Chieu School (21 Lac Trung, Hanoi), and teaches artistic creations through sculpture and pottery to 25 children visually impaired or with low vision.
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"There are many routes to exposure to the arts, as well as many creative ways to work. When people cannot see, they are authors of more creativity, exposure to work with the soul, the heart, with all the senses except his eyes ..." Ngoc Huynh Dao, teacher.
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Sculpture is a combination of light and shadow, the light and dark create the blocks, as they do not have light, then the children will feel so cubes do?
To find out the imagination space of visually impaired children, we have gradually, step by step to reach the children with two main channels. By ear: Listen to describe, often creating channels for the children to imagine a very rich but not to kill reality. Manual: No, always happens in real model, the channel you imagine a more accurate model but with children being dependent too much on the model, loss of creativity.
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Music
Biography
This wonderful choir has successfully performed at numerous concerts including Hanoi Opera House, Hanoi University, prestigious hotels and has been widely recognized for the strong rapport it creates with audiences.
Its artistic director, the Maestro Ton That Triem explains: "I attended by chance a wonderful concert by Russian musicians who played Western musicians on their traditional instruments several years ago. I decide to form the folk ensemble after that." The effort of the vision-impaired students was his inspiration. The name given the ensemble by Professor Triem is Hope.
All members can also play several instruments and regularly swap with each other.
Hope started with six members but now has twenty including musicians who are not sight impaired.
