<P> The center provides medical care, rehabilitation and vocational training for children and veterans from Vietnam who have been affected by Agent Orange . In 1998, The Vietnam Red Cross established the Vietnam Agent Orange Victims Fund to provide direct assistance to families throughout Vietnam that have been affected . In 2003, the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA) was formed . In addition to filing the lawsuit against the chemical companies, VAVA provides medical care, rehabilitation services and financial assistance to those injured by Agent Orange . </P> <P> The Vietnamese government provides small monthly stipends to more than 200,000 Vietnamese believed affected by the herbicides; this totaled $40.8 million in 2008 alone . The Vietnam Red Cross has raised more than $22 million to assist the ill or disabled, and several U.S. foundations, United Nations agencies, European governments and nongovernmental organizations have given a total of about $23 million for site cleanup, reforestation, health care and other services to those in need . </P> <P> Vuong Mo of the Vietnam News Agency described one of the centers: </P> <P> May is 13, but she knows nothing, is unable to talk fluently, nor walk with ease due to for her bandy legs . Her father is dead and she has four elder brothers, all mentally retarded...The students are all disabled, retarded and of different ages . Teaching them is a hard job . They are of the 3rd grade but many of them find it hard to do the reading . Only a few of them can . Their pronunciation is distorted due to their twisted lips and their memory is quite short . They easily forget what they've learned...In the Village, it is quite hard to tell the kids' exact ages . Some in their twenties have a physical statures as small as the 7 - or 8 - years - old . They find it difficult to feed themselves, much less have mental ability or physical capacity for work . No one can hold back the tears when seeing the heads turning round unconsciously, the bandy arms managing to push the spoon of food into the mouths with awful difficulty...Yet they still keep smiling, singing in their great innocence, at the presence of some visitors, craving for something beautiful . </P>

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