Secretary of the City Party Committee Luong Nguyen Minh Triet visited and presented Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to children infected with Agent Orange and disadvantaged children.

DNO - On the afternoon of October 1, Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the City Party Committee Luong Nguyen Minh Triet visited and presented Mid-Autumn Festival gifts at the Center for Supporting Agent Orange Victims and Unfortunate Children in Da Nang City (Ba Na Commune).

Also attending were Head of the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department of the City Party Committee Huynh Thi Thuy Dung, leaders of the City Party Committee Office and the Department of Health , Ba Na commune.

Secretary of the City Party Committee Luong Nguyen Minh Triet (4th from right) presents gifts to children studying at the Center for Supporting Agent Orange Victims and Disadvantaged Children in Da Nang City. Photo: NGOC PHU

Secretary of the City Party Committee Luong Nguyen Minh Triet sent best wishes to the children studying and training at the Center for Supporting Victims of Agent Orange and Unfortunate Children of the City; hoping that they will have a joyful, warm Mid-Autumn Festival filled with love.

The Secretary of the City Party Committee emphasized that the Mid-Autumn Festival is not only a time for children to have fun but also an opportunity for the whole society to show its care and concern for the future generation and hopes that they will feel joy, confidence and motivation to live more positively, towards a bright future.

Expressing his understanding of the disadvantages and difficulties that the children face, the City Party Secretary hopes that they will overcome their inferiority complex, live optimistically, confidently and constantly strive to improve in life.

City Party Secretary Luong Nguyen Minh Triet presents gifts to students at the center. Photo: NGOC PHU

The City Party Secretary also highly appreciated the efforts of the Center for Supporting Agent Orange Victims and Unfortunate Children in the city in overcoming difficulties and maintaining effective operations. With a sense of responsibility and love, the center has created a warm environment, helping children to be cared for, study, play, recover their health and have career orientation.

In the coming time, the City Party Secretary hopes that the center will continue to promote the care and support of children, creating conditions for them to develop comprehensively and make positive contributions to society. The city will pay more practical attention to the center's operating model.

Head of the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department of the City Party Committee Huynh Thi Thuy Dung presents gifts to students at the center. Photo: NGOC PHU

After the merger, the Center for Supporting Agent Orange Victims and Unfortunate Children of Da Nang City has 3 facilities: Facility 1 at 15 Nguyen Van Hue Street, Thanh Khe Ward; Facility 2 in Phuoc Hung Village, Ba Na Commune; Facility 3 in An Ha Trung Block, Quang Phu Ward.

The center is caring for and nurturing 120 subjects, with many different types of disabilities (mainly hearing loss, intellectual disability, Down syndrome...), of many different ages (youngest 11 years old, oldest 53 years old).

Leaders of the Department of Health (right) and leaders of Ba Na commune (left) presented gifts to students at the center. Photo: NGOC PHU

The center's activities include caring for and nurturing children affected by Agent Orange and disadvantaged children in a semi-boarding form (brought to the center in the morning and returned to their families in the afternoon); rehabilitation, physical therapy; teaching (reading, writing, drawing, etc.); vocational training (sewing, making incense, beading, making chiffon flowers, getting acquainted with computers, etc.).

In addition, the center organizes recreational activities and singing to help children reduce stress and depression, become more confident, gradually recover physical and intellectual functions, and soon integrate into the community.

Leaders of the City Party Committee Office presented gifts to students at the center. Photo: NGOC PHU

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