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A school wall with windows featuring hand painted sign language and alphabets

A teacher’s story: Using technology for learning

A school wall with windows featuring hand painted sign language and alphabets
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By Joy Wadimo

A teacher’s story: Using technology for learning

My name is Wadimo Joy. I have been a teacher in Uganda for 26 years. I believe assistive technology is a blessing to the growing minds of children with disabilities in Uganda today. In last year’s Primary School finals, one of my students with disabilities received a better score than all the other candidates. I know this success was… Read more →←
A folded wheelchair sits against the doorway with a sign atop: Cluster Office' of a building with two windows and an elevated step on sand

Approach nicely: Culture and disability in rural Namibia

A folded wheelchair sits against the doorway with a sign atop: Cluster Office' of a building with two windows and an elevated step on sand
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By Symen Brouwers, Aune Victor, Alvaro Fortin

Approach nicely: Culture and disability in rural Namibia

Indiscernible from afar, the seemingly disconnected homesteads scattered across the vast open landscape of Northern Namibia belie an advanced intelligence network. In this hard landscape, people have taken on roles and responsibilities, centred on Indunas (village chiefs in the Zambezi Region), to help them cope. People share the news… Read more →←
A young girl reaches out towards the blackboard in a classroom.

The challenge of inclusion for children with disabilities

A young girl reaches out towards the blackboard in a classroom.
Data and research

By Emma Sarton, Mark Smith

The challenge of inclusion for children with disabilities

Despite the fact that the right to education for all is enshrined in myriad national and international treaties, children with disabilities still face challenges in accessing education, being socially included in education and experiencing quality education. In addition to these gaps, there is also a lack of evidence into what works in… Read more →←
A group of smiling children sat on the floor. The girl at the center holds a blue doll.

“If they see me do it, they’ll know they can too.”

A group of smiling children sat on the floor. The girl at the center holds a blue doll.
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By Caroline den Dulk

Story also available in: 中文 العربية

“If they see me do it, they’ll know they can too.”

Furthering inclusive early learning in Papua New Guinea “I was just roaming around the community all day, basically doing nothing,” Rueben (36) takes me on his journey to become a trained teacher in the Early Childhood Learning Center in Hobu, Papua New Guinea. When he was about 3 years old, polio left him partially paralysed. Over… Read more →←
Two children in wheelchairs laughing in a crowd of people

I’m so special, are you?

Two children in wheelchairs laughing in a crowd of people
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By Lisa Surihani

I’m so special, are you?

International Day of Persons with Disabilities is commemorated every year on 3 December 2018 Maya Angelou said, “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength”. Until we can truly embrace, celebrate and not just tolerate what makes us different, we will always be… Read more →←
A girl with only one leg stands on crutches in front of a bombed out building

Children with disabilities affected by armed conflict

A girl with only one leg stands on crutches in front of a bombed out building
Children in emergencies

By Gopal Mitra

Children with disabilities affected by armed conflict

Saja has spent half her life living in conflict. She lost her home, her brother and several loved ones. She also lost her left leg to a bomb. But she has not lost hope in her future. Every day, she makes the long walk to school to continue her education. Saja says her most prized possession is her prosthetic leg. An aspiring gymnast… Read more →←
A young boy clasping his face and with elbows resting on a table is surrounded by two young girls while another boy to the side plays with a paper guitar.

Inclusive education for children with disabilities

A young boy clasping his face and with elbows resting on a table is surrounded by two young girls while another boy to the side plays with a paper guitar.
Data and research

By Mark Waltham

Inclusive education for children with disabilities

First, recognise their fundamental right to education. Second, start counting them. “The answer is 4!” says Patricia, 10, as she walks confidently to the board to solve a problem during math class. She goes to school in Sandema, Ghana. At first glance, her classroom appears to be like any other, but a closer look reveals some… Read more →←
A little boy getting kissed by his 3 brothers

“Your baby is a badly-cooked potato”

A little boy getting kissed by his 3 brothers
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By Victoria Maskell

“Your baby is a badly-cooked potato”

Sometimes someone says something and it hits with such impact that hours, days, years later the phrase still swirls around in your head. “The doctors told us we shouldn’t get too attached to our baby. They said he was essentially a potato – a potato that had been badly cooked. Imagine a defect at the factory, your baby is a… Read more →←
A girl in an orange top smiles at the camera

Transforming lives in Ghana, as more children with disabilities go to school

A girl in an orange top smiles at the camera
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By Eulette Ewart

Story also available in: Français 中文

Transforming lives in Ghana, as more children with disabilities go to school

“The answer is four,” said Patricia, 10, smiling brightly before she walked to the chalk board with confidence to write the answer to the maths problem in class that morning. Division was the topic of today’s primary 2 maths lesson at Afoko District Assembly School in Sandema, district capital of Bulisa North in Ghana’s Upper… Read more →←
Sajad applies for asylum.

“I’d be a superhero…” Sajad Al-Faraji: after Iraq

Sajad applies for asylum.
Children in emergencies

By Ashley Gilbertson

“I’d be a superhero…” Sajad Al-Faraji: after Iraq

Presevo, Serbia, November 2015   “I don’t have any hope, I was born without hope,” says Sajad Al-Faraji, a 15-year-old boy traveling from Basra, Iraq. Sajad is with his older sister, younger brother and his mother on his way to a train station that’s exclusively serving refugees in southern Serbia. I’m on assignment for… Read more →←
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