(VOVworld) – Vietnam has about 7 million persons with disabilities, 4 million of whom are of working age. In recent years the Vietnamese government has adopted policies to help disabled people get an education and find a job they can do.

(VOVworld) - Quang Hiep village in Cu M’gar district, Dak Lak province, is implementing started a program to fund housing for the poor. If successful, the program has become a model to be replicated.

(VOVworld) – Mining areas in Quang Ninh province have made bread just for coal miners. It is called miners’ bread.

(VOVworld) - From 2011 to 2015, the number of poor households in Vietnam declined 2% a year. This contributed to Vietnam’s goal of achieving sustainable economic growth while ensuring social security and improving people’s lives in remote, disadvantaged areas.

(VOVworld) – Female staff members of the Biology Faculty of the Natural Science College of Vietnam National University Hanoi have always considered teaching an integral part of scientific research. The faculty’s female educators were given the 2016 Vietnamese Women Award.

(VOVworld) – Quang Ninh is famous for beautiful tourist attractions and numerous coal mines which were opened at the end of the 19th century. These coal mines could represent a boom for Quang Ninh tourism. The sector is now planning tours to coal mines and hopes soon to test the concept with tourists.

(VOVworld) – Launched 6 months ago, a project to screen films for visually impaired people is being jointly implemented by Cinestar, an entertainment and film publication company, and Ho Chi Minh City’s Blind People’s Association.

(VOVworld) – Vietnam now has nearly 300 industrial zones that employ about 2.8 million workers. A survey by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor shows that the lives of these workers haven’t improved on par with what they have contributed to national construction and development. Vietnam needs to create social institutions to improve the lives of workers in industrial zones.

(VOVworld) – Whether it is rainy or sunny, hundreds of volunteers supporting Thang Long - Hanoi tourism man tourist sites with a smile on their lips. They act as tourism ambassadors, promoting Hanoi to foreign tourists.

(VOVworld) – With just 2,000 VND or 10 cents, poor workers can buy either a book, a pair of shoes, a bottle of oil, or even a new costume offered by the group E2k-Hanoi. E2K or Everything with 2,000 dong is a social project established by a group of young people to sell everything at only 10 cents for poor people and low-income workers.