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VietNamNet Bridge – Deaf and mute child Dinh Cong Tien lives in a world without sound, he cannot speak to his mother nor hear her, yet his world and what he wants to express to her comes alive through the colour of painting.
One of his paintings shows Tien wheeling physically challenged people from their homes to' physiotherapy suites. Tien does not have to look far for his inspiration for the piece, as he has been afflicted with tendon sclerosis since birth.
It was during a stay in hospital to undergo surgery to treat the disease, that he received a letter from the Association for the Support of Viet Nam Handicapped and Orphans inviting him to participate in a painting competition.
His painting entitled "Helping Friends" claimed the second prize, and most importantly was the first time he had been recognised for anything. Tien's mother, Pham Thi Thuy, aware of his love for art at an early age, recalls how the little boy used to draw with anything he could find laying around the house.
Keen to encourage any form of interaction in her son, Thuy soon started scrimping enough from her meagre income to buy paper and chalk for the child to draw.
In art Tien's imagination runs rampant, topics as diverse as the beauty of a waterfall to the destruction of man and war are all themes he has explored.
Life's tragedy
Tien's house in Ha Long Commune in Thanh Hoa Province's Ha Trung District is less than 10sq.m in area and is home to six people, his three siblings who are also mute and deaf and his parents. Their cramped home is silent but for the occasional chatter of the parents.
Thuy says she has been praying to hear her children call her mother. But she knows that in reality that day will never come.
"I have gripping pains in my stomach whenever I look at them," Thuy says through tears. She says she believes the family's health problems stemmed back to her father who was exposed to Agent Orange as a soldier in the battle-fields of the south in the late 1960s. She has already had one son die of a malignant brain tumour.
With six mouths to feed and only 700sq.m of workable land to farm, the family is very poor. Thuy's husband, Tue, is forced to work an extra job as a mason to be able to provide medicine for his children.
It's usually the kindness of neighbours however, that helps the family through the difficult patches. When Tien went to hospital for surgery the people of Ha Long Commune's Hoang Van Hamlet contributed nearly VND1.4mil to the costs.
Thuy says her family has not yet received allowances from the State to help her and her children cope, and wonders how the family will manage when the couple become old and will have difficulty working.
Thuy says that above all else she hopes her children will be accepted by a school for handicapped people. A school that will teach her children skills so they could provide for themselves when their parents no longer can.
VietNamNet Bridge – Deaf and mute child Dinh Cong Tien lives in a world without sound, he cannot speak to his mother nor hear her, yet his world and what he wants to express to her comes alive through the colour of painting.
One of his paintings shows Tien wheeling physically challenged people from their homes to' physiotherapy suites. Tien does not have to look far for his inspiration for the piece, as he has been afflicted with tendon sclerosis since birth.
It was during a stay in hospital to undergo surgery to treat the disease, that he received a letter from the Association for the Support of Viet Nam Handicapped and Orphans inviting him to participate in a painting competition.
His painting entitled "Helping Friends" claimed the second prize, and most importantly was the first time he had been recognised for anything. Tien's mother, Pham Thi Thuy, aware of his love for art at an early age, recalls how the little boy used to draw with anything he could find laying around the house.
Keen to encourage any form of interaction in her son, Thuy soon started scrimping enough from her meagre income to buy paper and chalk for the child to draw.
In art Tien's imagination runs rampant, topics as diverse as the beauty of a waterfall to the destruction of man and war are all themes he has explored.
Life's tragedy
Tien's house in Ha Long Commune in Thanh Hoa Province's Ha Trung District is less than 10sq.m in area and is home to six people, his three siblings who are also mute and deaf and his parents. Their cramped home is silent but for the occasional chatter of the parents.
Thuy says she has been praying to hear her children call her mother. But she knows that in reality that day will never come.
"I have gripping pains in my stomach whenever I look at them," Thuy says through tears. She says she believes the family's health problems stemmed back to her father who was exposed to Agent Orange as a soldier in the battle-fields of the south in the late 1960s. She has already had one son die of a malignant brain tumour.
With six mouths to feed and only 700sq.m of workable land to farm, the family is very poor. Thuy's husband, Tue, is forced to work an extra job as a mason to be able to provide medicine for his children.
It's usually the kindness of neighbours however, that helps the family through the difficult patches. When Tien went to hospital for surgery the people of Ha Long Commune's Hoang Van Hamlet contributed nearly VND1.4mil to the costs.
Thuy says her family has not yet received allowances from the State to help her and her children cope, and wonders how the family will manage when the couple become old and will have difficulty working.
Thuy says that above all else she hopes her children will be accepted by a school for handicapped people. A school that will teach her children skills so they could provide for themselves when their parents no longer can.