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"Vy Pham" <missyguide@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 3 May 2006 16:11:44 -0400

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Viet Nam News Agency, Vietnam Monday, May 01, 2006
IT project for the blind
Ha Noi (VNA) - A project to establish a digital speaking-book library and
promote the use of an on-screen Vietnamese language reading software by Dang
Hoai Phuc (SPELLED P H U C - EDITOR), a blind IT teacher, is being carrying
out with funding form the Samgsung Digitall Hope Programme 2005.
The project, with the theme for "Bright future from a present dream",
enables visional impaired people to prepare documents, access Internet and
compose music on computers with a sound system, Phuc said. It brought Phuc a
special prize of Samgsung Digital Hope Programme in 2005. Earlier in 2003,
his project on IT distance training for visional impaired people also won
the programme's high prize with a funding of 40,750 USD. The project has
been implemented in southern Tay Ninh, Ben Tre, An Giang and Dong Nai
provinces since February 2003.
By connecting IT centres in the four provinces with the Sao Mai IT centre in
Ho Chi Minh City, where Phuc works as Vice Director, the project helps
visional impaired people to learn IT application without having to go to the
city. The trainees are provided with books in Braille. They send questions
to teachers by e-mail or telephone, and only come to the Sao Mai centre for
monthly tests and exams at the end of the course.
Lynette Lee Corporal, a correspondent of the Philippines Star newspaper,
said that Phuc's projects create opportunities for visional impaired people
to adapt themselves to world changes, particularly IT development, and help
them live more independently.
Nguyen Khue, Director of the Sao Mai Centre said Phuc's projects hope to
help visional impaired people who have usually fallen into oblivion in the
IT race.
Dang Hoai Phuc, born in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, lost his vision in an explosion by
ordnance left from the war when he was 10 years old. With endless efforts,
Phuc completed high school and afterwards was selected to attend an IT
teacher training course for blind people by an Italian humanitarian
organisation in cooperation with the Bung Sang club - a house for visional
impaired children in Ho Chi Minh City. After the training course, Phuc
realised that computer is the tool to help visional impaired people to
integrate into the society.-Enditem

http://www.vnagency.com.vn/newsA.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2&CATEGORY_ID=29&NEWS_ID=197334
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