Special assistance is now given to the visually impaired

Since early this year, the Ministry of Culture and Information has co-ordinated with Force Foundation of Holland to hand over sets of reading aids to visually-impaired people in 40 libraries in cities and provinces.

The second phase’s to training course for 13 librarians in northern provinces was held to train them to use the machine. In addition, a project on digital sound books for Ho Chi Minh City’s library was also deployed. The project was funded by the Vietnam-Denmark cultural exchange fund.