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ADD's vision is of a world where all disabled people are able to enjoy their rights, fulfil their responsibilities and obligations and participate as fully as they choose at every level of society.
ADD supports organisations of disabled people in Africa and Asia to influence policy and practice to end social exclusion and poverty.
World Refugee Day - June 20th
The United Nations estimate that 3.5 million refugees and internally displaced people (IDP) are disabled. But a recent report by the Commission for Refugees found that disabled people were not being properly accounted for in the registration process, indicating that the real number could be significantly higher. Reasons for the high number of disabled refugees and IDP's include:
• Disabled people are less likely to escape from the war or violence going on around them and, in some cases, will have been left by their families – considered too much of a burden to take with them.
• Disabled people are more likely to become malnourished. If a food distribution centre is accessible, disabled people often experience indifference and discrimination from the agencies distributing food.
More people will also become disabled whilst living in the camps. Diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, which spread easily in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions, leave many people with epilepsy or paralysis.
Uganda hosts more that 1 million disabled refugees – I’d like to introduce you to one of them…
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Displacement camp at Ngariam Corner. Photograph: Geoff Sayer 
Displacement camp at Ngariam Corner. Photograph: Geoff Sayer 
Namwase Eseza is a member of a women's group in Uganda. She calls her tricycle ‘Mother’; it has provided her with everything, simply by giving her mobility.