Vietnam

Political awareness is generally quite low among Vietnamese People With Disabilities (PWD’s). Not many seem to think of themselves as a potential political force, nor of the part that Organisations of People With Disabilities (OPWD’s) might play. Even the best educated know little about western democracies, organisational freedom, and the situation of PWD’s in other parts of the world. This is not entirely due to lack of education, but also a result of the fact that Vietnam is a fairly closed society, where official censorship is still in existence. Access to the Internet is limited; the government has set up a firewall that makes it impossible to access a number of homepages.

• The Country Strategy section contains information about which focus areas there are for country projects receiving funding from the DPOD miniprogramme.
  
• The Projects section contains information about current and previous development collaborations carried out by DPOD member organisations, with either miniprogramme or alternative funding.
• The Country Group section contains information about DPOD organisations who are currently implementing country projects, or who have previously implemented them. Description and contact information for the countries with country offices can also be found here.
  
• The Global line section contains information about DPOD counterpart organisations who have had members participating in the Global line courses at Egmont Højskole.
  

Contact person at DPOD
Peter Rothe Schultz 
Phone: +45 3638 8513 
E-mail: prs@handicap.dk