A TV commercial featuring the late Professor Fred Hollows, first run as a clip on YouTube, has been named the world’s best not-for-profit TV advertisement for 2009.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Karijn knows what it feels like to have epilepsy; she lived with it for 22 years. It restricted her life in many ways. After a successful operation some years ago, she now lives a life without limitations due to epilepsy and is more self confident than ever before.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
“Poor people are disproportionately disabled, and people with disabilities are disproportionately poor”
Robert Holzmann, Director of World Bank’s Social Protection Department, 2001.
Disability and poverty reinforce one another – intensifying marginalization and insecurity for PwDs. PwDs are among the poorest of the poor, while people living in poverty are more at risk than others to become disabled. [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
0 Comments