Empowering families of and people with disabilities and deliberately targeting fathers of children with disabilities. Breaking Barriers♿️
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Joined October 2019
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To all parents that have children with disabilities just like me, how did you feel when you discovered your child has a disability or is at high risk of disability? The feeling, how do you feel.
It broke me, even today it, breaks my heart and makes me cry always. Lets talk
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The most difficult qnd painful thing about having a child with disabilities in the first world, is how they are quick to put child on end of life. The child would have been born in the 3rd world, under very difficult circumstances in hospitals and survived.
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In this day and age, with so many people with disabilities, awareness, and campaigns against discrimination of persons with disabilities. Why does it seem like the discrimination is actually growing?
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Dadsofhopetrust retweeted
#DisabilityAwareness
#ChildrenNeverForget
Monday 11 March 2024 I told the learner's at Bains Primary school during my #SchoolsDisabilityTalkProgramme
that when they see me out there they must come and talk to me. They must not run away or laugh at anyone with a disability.
#ThisIsMyStory
I was about to cross the road when
I heard little voices "Hello ma'am, hello ma'am" I looked back & saw a group of learners smiling & running to meet me. I stopped to figure out what the excitement was all about. I prepared myself for anything to come because I've learnt that children have an unpredictable behaviour. This behaviour is the results of how they have raised at home, school and the communities they come from. I held my breath with a big smile 🤔 with a little fear wondering what drama I was going to encounter but when they got to me the first thing they did was to remind me that I visited their school to talk about #PWDs I smiled with excitement 😊 and I couldn't believe it that they remembered what I taught them. They all narrated to me what I said that day. This gave give hope❤️ Yes children are tomorrow's leaders if we teach them well.
#Dear Parents and teachers always remember that children never forget what we teach them. These amazing children are now alert about #PWDs
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● A child with #Disabilities often spends hours being taught how to interact with others... but why don't we spend time teaching those without disabilities how to interact with them? - Colleen Peterson
My vision for my
#SchoolsDisabilityTalkProgramme have conversations with learners about #Disability + #PeopleWithDisabilities using #Storytelling method & allowing the learners to ask questions on anything about Disability and they get to share what they have heard about #PWDs
#DisabilityTwitter
#IamFlawsome
Dadsofhopetrust retweeted
James Maddison with mascot Samuel, a six-year-old with cerebral palsy who recently walked a mile for charity at Christmas. 🫶💪🙌
Dadsofhopetrust retweeted
Join our #AFCON x #RatifyTheADP keepy-uppy challenge to tackle disability discrimination!
The African Disability Protocol is a treaty that addresses issues specific to people living in Africa. African leaders must not drop the ball on #disabilityrights!⚽️
campaigning.sightsavers.org/…
How do parents of children with disabilities cope, when they are told their child with disabilities has no more than 2months to live? What kind of support should the child get, should the parents get? Should the family get?
As much as we appreciate governments effort to address disability issues, we believe it really means nothing if the system is a total package. Assistive devices still out of reach for many people with disabilities. Imagine a prostatic leg more than US$3000 in a govt institute
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Had an interesting, honest and inspiring parent to parent support session with parents of children with disabilities, some going through corrective surgery. Realised our situations & the pain are the same whether rich or poor. Disability issues issues nid grassroots solutions.
Why do students with disabilities from varsity struggle to get jobs yet they have good grades, let alone getting an attachment. Makes me feel like am not doing anything for persons with disabilities.
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Yesterday had a session with parents of children with disabilities and realised how deep rooted stigma, discrimination is in our society. I felt so helpless and so sad bt I ws strengthened to push harder, work harder until real INCLUSION is realised.
Today was #lnternationalWheelchairDay. We would like to tthank donors however we urge them and their partners who distribute wheelchairs to donate the proper wheelchair to one who needs it. Let us not assume its a one size fits all type of chair. It may do more harm than good.
It takes love, empathy, a good and caring heart to be someone who truly fights for people with disabilities & their families. Small organisations are struggling to get funding, and this threatens the sustainability of these organisations and wat they trying to achieve.
Whenever a war breaks those that suffer the most are women & children, people with disabilities and the elderly. Unfortunately these casualties are not one sided only, both sides are affected and most people with disabilities wil b left to die. SAD and Heartbreaking
Dadsofhopetrust retweeted
We must #normalize paying people with disabilities #pwds They do so much high quality work yet they don't get paid under the guise of #volunteerism
Every person with disabilities no matter the condition and it's severity deserves some time too. Today was out with the young man and the whole family. #everyonedeservesleisuretime
