Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped (VNAH) is a non-profit organization established to help war amputees and other disabled people in Vietnam

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. It was founded by a Vietnamese American Ca Van Tran in 1991 and based in Virginia

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The organization VNAH collaborates closely with the government of Vietnam and receives funding and support from several U.S. agencies (including United States Agency for International Development

United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development is the United States federal government agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid. President John F. Kennedy created USAID in 1961 by executive order to implement development assistance programs in the areas...

 (USAID) and the U.S. Department of Labor).

Declared Programs

• Technical assistance to regional prosthetics clinic
  Clinic
  A clinic is a health care facility that is primarily devoted to the care of outpatients...
  
  s in the production and delivery of limbs and braces.
• Technical assistance to government and private wheelchair
  Wheelchair
  A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking. The device comes in variations where it is propelled by motors or by the seated occupant turning the rear wheels by hand. Often there are handles behind the seat for someone else to do the pushing...
  
   factories in the production of high quality and low cost wheelchairs.
• Technical assistance in vocational training to two national vocational training centers and selected centers in the provinces of Vietnam.
• Promoting programs and policies to integrate the disabled into all aspects of their community, social and economic life.

External links

• VNAH Home Page

This article is related to the List of non-governmental organizations in Vietnam.