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John Iddi Neindoo
In 1956 when John was 16 he was badly injured during an explosion in his village and he spent several years in hospital. When he came out of hospit...
Bee keeping project
Sackarla, pictured right, is a founder member of the Chipata Branch of ZNAPH (an organisation of people with physical disabilities in Zambia). ...
Community Based Intervention
ADD International has supported the CBI project since 1995, a child centred physiotherapy and education service for disabled children, the maj...
Counterpart
“Before the training I just felt like I was in a totally different world to everyone else.”
Imagine waking...
Grace Opio
It began an ordinary working day, buying and selling beans and sesame, for Grace in Uganda. The vehicle she was travelling in stopped on a la...
Removal of children from Sudan
In a Joint Statement issued by over 40 international development organisations including: ADD International, Save the Children, Oxfam, World V...
Bangladesh ratifies the UN Convention
25 Nov. 2007
PRESS RELEASE
Ratification of the UN C...
Disabled women
Disabled women continued to gain recognition in 2006 within the Sudanese General Women Union (SGWU) both at state and na...
Ronjana
WHEN Umme Ranjona was young her friends would tease her and call her names. Even her brothers and sisters joined in. “Langri,” they would call her,...
Teara Kin
Since joining her village self help group, which is supported by ADD International, Teara has had access to physiotherapy and a wheelchair. This vi...
Living Positively
Agnes (not her real name) lives in a camp for internally displaced people at Ngariam Corner in Uganda. Agnes is a disabled woman who is also ...
BBC World Service (July 22nd 2008)Albino killings in Tanzania (BBC World S... First albino MP appointed in Tanzania
On April 8th, her 48th birthday, Al-Shaymaa Kwegyir was sworn in as an MP during a ceremony at the State House in Dodma.
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Bangladesh women's groups
In Bangladesh women do not have the same level of protection from human rights violations as men, for disabled women the situation is even worse an...
Alpona Khatun
Disabled People’s organisations in Bangladesh have had many successes in their ongoing “Campaign against violence to women”. After several disturbi...
Helen and Lucy Alupo
“Parents were afraid to even show that they had disabled children. If a mother gave birth to a severely disabled child, it seemed shaming.&nb...
Gawahir Abdolla
Gawahir (meaning jewellery) is a young girl who has never walked. She had to crawl everywhere until she was seven and someone gave her a wheelchair...
Tanzania Albino Society
Tanzania Albino Society
ADD International has been supporting TAS, the Tanzania Albino Society, since it was first set up ...
2007 cyclone
On the night of 15 November 2007, cyclone SIDR swept over 16 districts of Bangladesh, devastating 710 Unions, 103 Upozillas, killing over 1...
Innocent Sombie
Innocent SOMBIE lost the use of his legs after suffering from polio when he was five. His parents did not understand what had happened, or wh...
Zambia National Association of the Physically Handicapped (ZNAPH)
Established in 1984 ADD International has been supporting (ZNAPH) since 1997. ZNAPH has a large membership with active branches in most major towns...
Isaac Kute meets with acting Bangladeshi President
On Sunday June 4th 2006, ADD International’s then Chief Executive Isaac Kute and ADD Bangladesh Country Representative Mosharraf Hossain were...
The importance of changing attitudes
Changing attitudes is one of the most important areas of ADD International's work. Although it is challenging and very hard to measure the impact o...
Ghana Disability BillThe Ghana Parliament passed the Persons with Disability Bill on June 23rd 2006. The Bill is aimed at enabling disabled people to “enjoy r...
The Gaoua Network and Guilluame
Gaoua is a small town in Burkina Faso and the Gaoua network is made up of disabled people’s organisations including a group specifically for ...
Syed Ibrahim
At 29 life was good for Ibrahim, he was working as a shopkeeper in Chennai earning a decent salary.
Ibrahim was such a good and trusted worker th...
Wakiso Disabled Women's group
The Wakiso disabled women's group in Uganda was founded in 2003 and has about 60 members.
They came together with a clear aim to achieve p...
Ntugwa Masunga Jiduta
Ntugwa was born in 1966 and first joined a disabled persons group in 1988. It was good to belong to a group but they were not organised....
Long Kunthea
Long Kunthea is 37 and has had polio since childhood, her husband is also disabled, having been shot in the leg during the civil war. Kunthea is th...
Evarist Tegete
Evarist is a deaf man who feels discrimination every day.
“If I go to get medical treatment, because my doctor can’t co...
Albinos threatened (New York Times June 8th 2008)