Promoting #disability #inclusion & #rights of #personswithdisabilities in #Zimbabwe. #Advocacy 4 #accessibility of all spaces for #people with #disabilities
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Disability Resources Trust retweeted
The national Inclusive indaba also seek to cement a coalition building between OPDs and the Women's Movement in Addressing Intersectional Discrimination in a bid to create a Violence Free Society for Women and Girls with Disabilities #16DaysofActivism2022
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
Persons with disabilities are a key constituency in Zimbabwe and are estimated to make up 7% of the population; however, they remain invisible in all levels of society and face numerous challenges in accessing healthcare, jobs, education, and justice. @unescoROSA @UNDPZimbabwe
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
Achieving #disabilityinclusion and empowerment #demands trans-formative shifts and innovative solutions for removing structural barriers. Social innovations have potential to serve as a powerful tool to break trends and increase awareness, for marginalized groups @unescoROSA
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
Samatha - Hope Trust Foundation: "A person with disability has right to sexual and reproductive health. Women and Girls with disabilities are being denied their right to marriage and other reproductive rights" @unescoROSA @MyEDF @kchokumanyara1 @DisabilityZim @signsofhopezim
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
Vusumuzi Ndlovu from Zimbabwe Network of disability and HIV/AIDS organization, says people do not know how to deal with persons with disabilities leading to their abuse. He says they train people on how to take care of PLWDs. #Asakhe @zenzele @BYOgallery
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
...The pandemic has revealed how critically important it is to produce essential information in accessible formats, including in Braille and audible formats. #WorldBrailleDay
@abrahammateta @ianmapira7 @sam_signsofhope @tafadzwanyikad1 @DeafZimTrust @kudamapeture @DisabilityZim
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
Access is not a gift.
Access is not a favor.
Access is not charity.
Access is not a gratuity.
Access for disabled people is not only the right thing to do.
It is the law.
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
4/ The World Report on Disability estimates that 220 million youth with disabilities in the world today are marginalized and largely invisible in society, especially in education and the labour market; nearly 80% live in developing countries. #zimbabwe
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
We are aware & are shocked to learn of reports that some of our brothers & sisters with disabilities are facing further discrimination and isolation in the current climate with COVID-19. We have prepared a COVID-19 webpage w key recommendations. bit.ly/2IYu7VF #COVID19
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
From February 3-5, for the first time USAID and @StateDept will co-host the annual meeting of the @Glad_Net, reaffirming U.S. leadership in disability programming across the globe.
Read more: ow.ly/4Tkn50yc79E
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
UN Climate Resolution Emphasizes Protection of Disability Rights hrw.org/news/2019/07/15/un-c…
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
Yes, the promise of #inclusion would remain unfulfilled unless #ChildrenWithDisabilities, who are integral members of our societies are included in #education. With only a decade away for the achievement of #SDGs, it is necessary we wake up to this reality. @SDG_2030
All over the world, children with disabilities are disproportionately denied their right to an education – about half of them do not go to school.
The #SDGs promise to leave no one behind will not be realised unless we change this. #ThisAbility
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
As the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence continues, Ms. @FloMudzingwa the Director of @HopeRes_trust notes that Women with disabilities must not be taken advantage of but they must know that they are women with power to stand against abuse @womensvoicezw
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
To be a disabled person in society means:
Being arbitrarily assigned a cost(without a benefit);
Having your life devalued(with all value ignored or minimized);
Confronting discrimination(with the fight for equity equated with preferential treatment).
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
An accommodation for a disabled person is not a favor or magnanimous.
It is recognition that, for too long, workplaces have excluded or been inaccessible to disabled workers.
Accommodations are not preferential treatment.
They simply level the paying field.
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
We need more public spaces for our kids that foster inclusion and respect for each other, so that they can grow up celebrating diversity.
#GenerationEquality
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
Disabled people are not a cost.
Disabled people are not a charge.
Disabled people are not a burden.
Disabled people are not a liability.
The attempt to quantify and devalue the worth of disabled people is dehumanizing.
It is the essence of ableism.
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
Great to see the amazing work that @WeAreMotivation is doing on 3D Printed Wheelchairs being featured by the @GAATES_GAN
We are very proud to have this as part of our AT2030 programme.
globalaccessibilitynews.com/…
Disability Resources Trust retweeted
Being literate changed my life from non-verbal and unable to communicate to non-verbal and being able to spell exactly what I wanted to say.
Literacy for non-verbal children transforms their lives.
I advocate for this through my charity @TeachUsToo
#InternationalLiteracyDay
