Just a click away, web browsers can now place orders for handicrafts at an online market recently launched by two young people in Hanoi.
Ta Bich Huong and Trinh Cong Thanh Tuesday inaugurated a website at ww.nguoikhuyettat.org
Huong recalled that as a student, she initiated the establishment of an online shop to sell products made by the disabled. She received support from Thanh, founder of the website for Vietnam’s Agent Orange victims, to translate her dream into reality.
Huong’s online shop has pictures made from stone or dry leaves, dried flowers, embroidered silk handkerchiefs, greeting cards, table lamps and bed clothes.
Thanh, also the administrator for the Vietnam Disability Network forum, said the prices of these products were 30 percent lower than similar items at other souvenir shops.
He said clients could place orders via the Internet and the shop employees would deliver goods free of charge for buyers in Hanoi.
Thanh revealed among the best-selling items were chains with pendants made from coconut shells by disabled craft makers in Can Tho Mekong Delta province and dried flowers by members of the “Green Dream” disabled group in Hanoi.
The products had gradually become popular and a Japanese firm recently placed a large order, he said.
Thanh said the web founders offer their online market services free to encourage more disabled people to introduce their products at the website.
The online shop also medical equipment for the disabled, like wheel-chairs, three-wheeled motorcycles, wooden crutches and artificial legs, said Thanh.
In the past, Thanh had won the Information Technology Knight Title awarded by weekly IT newspaper e-CHIP and VASC Software and Media Company.
The award aims to encourage wider informatics usage by recognizing individuals or groups working on shareware development, products that serve the public, or those who work toward wider public use of information technology.
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