What issues have you faced with accessibility when travelling and how have you coped with them or worked around them? This would be a good place to share things like:
Hesperian, publisher of 'Where there is no Doctor', supports individuals and communities in their struggles to realize the right to health. They have developed other easy to read materials that are produced in many languages. These include 20 titles,
Read more…Check out Mary Jane Ponten, an Elderly lady who goes out to Ghana and China (she has Cerebral Palsy) http://www.joniandfriends.org/radio/5-minute/encouragement-table/
Also found a broadcast of her being interviewed in 2006 http://www.joniandfriends.or
Read more…Every Sunday Torch Trust have a short programme on Premier Radio about faith and disability, called Insight.
Patricia Douglas (member of this group) emailed me some questions about myself and my disability and interest in mission. The Insight team edi
Read more…I am the moderator of the Micah Network Disability Forum. The Micah Network (MN)website is being revamped and the new site will soon go 'live'. The different thematic forums will be hosted in the website itself.
If you would like to join the disabilit
Read more…News alert from the Disability and Rehabilitation Team at WHO on 3rd December, 2010
On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 3 December, the count down begins to the launch of the World Report on Disability on
9 June 2011 in Geneva. This ma
This new website launched by AFDO & DRC has information and ideas on how to include Self Advocates in conferences. There is information for people organising conferences and for Self Advocates going to conferences. The site is written in easy English
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Integr8 is the youth programme of Through the Roof,here to empower, equip and enable the inclusion of young disabledpeople in order that they can be a positive influence in the UK anddeveloping countries.
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The Leprosy Mission Scotland has a staff who uses a hearing aid. It is becoming more and more difficult for him using the telphone and in meetings when there is ambient noise.
The hearing aid technician has told him that all he needs to do is 'turn t
Read more…Luke14 is a CBM initiative aimed at equipping churches to welcome and include people with disabilities.
Find out more at: http://www.cbmi.org.au/Content.aspx?id=219
Jannine Ebenso
The Leprosy Mission
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