Disability

Disability is not an inability. I am a wheel chair bound person of disability. I am proud about it. I do not shy away from duties that able-bodied persons do. […]

Swaziland: Sandanezwe Invader’s Craft and Lifestyle Center empowers disabled artisans and their parents through alien plants and textiles to make clothes. Sandanezwe Invader’s Craft and Lifestyle Center is a start-up, […]

The ARADI Project is a continental disability-oriented strategy that is funded by the EU and CBM to enable 13 PAN African Disability Federations and 14 Youth CSOs to promote the […]

Polokwane, 17 March: The first ever joint SADC Protocol@Work Summit between two countries ended on a high note last night with awards celebrating local efforts to promote gender equality in […]

The estimated one billion people living with disabilities worldwide face many barriers to inclusion in many key aspects of society. As a result, people with disabilities do not enjoy access […]

Name of the story: Disabled women group proves wrong Name of the media house: Radio Saut Country: Tanzania Synopsis Brief description of the item of work you submitted and motivation […]

I am a handicapped woman and the mother of two children. I suffered from a partial body paralysis after the birth of my daughter 13 years ago and with time my condition deteriorated and I became completely bed ridden. Before the birth of my daughter I used to work in a hotel and helped my family, but after my illness I lost the job. I lost everything. I accepted loneliness as part of my fate. I truly ended up believing that there was no future for handicapped people. However, my good friend Priscilla Bignoux stood by me. She helped me to start going out and mingling with people again. It was only then that I started to see the bright side of life. I started smiling once again.

This manual is designed to provide the community based rehabilitation worker with information to assist the engagement with the deafblind child or young adult to support the development of the […]

The contents of this issue of Agenda include: Gendering disability and disabling gender: critical reflections on the intersectionality of gender and disability Understanding the complex stigmatisation of women with intellectual […]

“You change your life by changing your heart” Max Lucado At the beginning of 2016 several things were uncertain and to some extent wearisome. As one who joined Gender Links […]