HCM City (VNA) – The representative of the Belgium non-governmental organisation Handicap International in Viet Nam, Patrick Le Folcalvez, on January 8 was presented the insignia “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” by the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisation.
Patrick Le Folcalvez was honoured for his help to disabled people in Viet Nam.
Over the past 10 years, Handicap International has conducted projects to build an orthopedic workshop and a spinal care unit at the Hospital for Rehabilitation and Occupational Diseases in HCM City and a traffic safety project, which helped raise students’ awareness on traffic safety and presented helmets to primary schoolchildren.