Joint resettlement project for disabled
MYANMAR: Myanmar Health Ministry and the Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) have been cooperating in implementing a
resettlement project for the disabled in the country, aimed at helping
them in their recovery efforts, sources with the ministry said on
Monday.
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Resettlement |
| * Aimed at
helping them in their recovery efforts
* Under the project JICA is to
provide technical knowhow to Myanmar |
The five-year project (2009-2013), being implemented at the National
Disabled Recovery Hospital in Yangon, includes education and human
resource development and upgrading of medical equipment for the
hospital, the sources said. adding that information network between the
Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, non-governmental
organizations and the health ministry will be established.
Under the technical cooperation project, the JICA is to provide
technical knowhow to Myanmar and train Myanmar government employees in
Japan, it said. During last year, the Myanmar Disabled People
Association (MDPA) drew two long-term resettlement projects for the
disable people in the country as an encouraging measures by providing
them with vocational opportunities.
The first three-year project have started implementation by the
European Union organization and the Leprosy Mission International (TLMI)
in five townships in the Yangon municipal area.
Another five-year project with TLMI in five regions of Mawlamyaing,
Pathein, Taungoo, Pakkoku and Kyaingtong to be followed includes
disseminating educational talks, teaching programs and vocational
training programs.
In Myanmar, there are over 50 million populations, of which the
disabled take up 1.3 million.
Among them, handicaps stood the highest with 72.3 percent, followed
by visual impairment with 10.9 percent, hearing impairment with 9.5
percent and mentally impairment with 9 percent.
YNGON, Monday, Xinhua, |
