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Cambodia
Country Director: Srey Vanthon
Programme start: 1995
Population: 14m
% living on less than US$1 a day: estimated 34%
Adult life expectancy at birth: 58 years
Since ADD began work in Cambodia a significant number of disabled people have become aware of their rights and ADD now works in eight provinces in 237 villages and reaches 5,244 disabled people.
Work here currently focusses on building the capacity of district level federations of disabled people to become effective membership organisations. We provide training in areas such as organisational development, disability rights, and advocacy whilst at the same time building up teams of disability equality trainers who will carry on this work in the future. Alongside training we also support federations to lobby for local and national inclusion in important development programs such as poverty reduction strategies, elections, universal primary education and HIV/aids awareness.
In the last elections ADD worked with the National Election Committee on inclusion of disabled people in the electoral process. The leader of National Election Committee, Im Suosdey, declared his commitment to work with the disability movement to respond to the political needs of disabled people.
International Children's Day
International Deaf Day celebrations
Cambodian fisherman