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AusAID’s Development for All Mid Term Review Report
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Continue Reading7th International Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD)
WILD will bring together approximately 30 women leaders with disabilities from around the world to strengthen leadership capacity, create new visions, and build international networks of support for inclusive international...
Continue ReadingOne Minute Youth Video Contest
Calling all youth filmmakers! Each year, UNICEF publishes a report called State of the World’s Children. Next year, the theme is on children with disabilities. We’d like hear your voice, so send...
Continue Reading2013 World Deafblind Confab Organizers Tap Local Experts
In town to tap local counterparts for a 2013 “International Conference of the World Federation of the Deafblind” slated in the country, was a delegation led by Mr. Christer Nilsson...
Continue ReadingMESSAGE OF MMDA CHAIRMAN ATTY. FRANCIS N. TOLENTINO in the Celebration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
MESSAGE OF CHAIRMAN ATTY. FRANCIS N. TOLENTINO CELEBRATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 3 DECEMBER 2012 MMDA GROUNDS, MAKATI CITY MAGANDANG UMAGA SA INYONG LAHAT. NGAYONG...
Continue ReadingFREE MRT 3, LRT AND PNR RIDES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
We are pleased to inform you that Secretary Joseph Emilio Aguinaldo Abaya of the Department of Transportation and Communications has granted the request of the Council to avail free rides...
Continue ReadingBackground of the Celebration of the 2012 International Day of Persons with Disabilities, December 3
Over one billion people, or approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population, live with some form of disability. Persons with disabilities, “the world’s largest minority”, often face...
Continue ReadingAPT, Apt for Carmona PWDs
November 27, 2012dandeePhoto Releases,Southern Luzon and Western Visayas,Sub-committee on Training, Employment and LivelihoodAdaptive Paper Technology,LGU Carmona
Appropriate Paper-based Technology (APT) cheered. Carmona trainees above, show off finished items and take to heart APT, by author Bevill Parker, British Environmentalist, which ‘’makes something out of nothing’’. Turning...
Continue ReadingYOUNG VOICES’ SHOUT- OUT “ May PWD ID Kami, Kasali Kami!!
Leonard Cheshire Disability Philippines Foundation, Inc. (LCDPFI) gathered over 60 young people with disabilities and partners, to launch these “Young Voices” (YVs) as a powerhouse cast of disability advocates in...
Continue ReadingLady Mayor Adopts “Bags for Life” in Carmona, Cavite
November 22, 2012dandeePhoto Releases,Southern Luzon and Western Visayas,Sub-committee on Training, Employment and Livelihood,Technical Cooperation DivisionBags for Life,LGU Carmona,Mayor Dahlia Loyola
After an exciting exhibit and sale of fashionable “Bags for Life” crafted by persons with disabilities and their kins at the Municipal Hall last November 7, 2012, Mayor Dahlia Loyola...
Continue ReadingRP Joins UN-ESCAP’s Intergovernmental Meeting to Assess AP Decade of Persons with Disabilities
November 21, 2012dandeePhoto Releases,Sub-committee on International Disability NetworkIncheon Strategy to Make the Right Real
‘’MAKE THE RIGHT REAL-PHilippine Delegation – Standing left to right: DSWD Undersecretary & In-Charge of NCDA/Head of the Delegation Parisya L. Taradji, NCDA-Programs Management Division Assistant Chief/Planning Officer IV Marlu...
Continue ReadingRP TEAM Bags 2 “Global IT Challenge Grand Prizes and 1 Special Award in Korea
November 16, 2012dandeeNational News,Sub-committee on Information, Communications and Technology,Sub-committee on International Disability Network,Technical Cooperation DivisionGlobal IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities,Incheon,South Korea
Our 6-man “Make the Right Real Team Philippines” brought home 3 awards, 2 grand champion and a special award in e-Life, e-Tools and slogan making contests in ‘Global IT Challenge...
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