Disability can trap individuals and their families in poverty, and aid donors and NGOs need to ensure their development work involves and benefits disabled people equally.
Tim Wainwright, CEO of ADD International, demands in a blog at The Guardian, that development must not ignore disability. He points out that Disability can trap individuals and their families in poverty, and that aid donors and NGOs therefore need to ensure their development work involves and benefits disabled people equally.
According to Wainwright, much of mainstream development`s resources, research, campaigning efforts and attention ignore disabled people. There are exeptions, but overall attention is patchy.
Read the full article by CEO Tim Wainwright in the Guardian newspaper.
About ADD International:
ADD International is a UK-based development agency working as an ally to the disability movements in Africa and Asia. ADD works from a human rights perspective and since 1985 has played a key role in facilitating disabled people to come together to make decisions about their own lives and to campaign for their rights; basic rights that most people take for granted such as family life, means of earning a living, education, basic healthcare and respect from other members of the community. (Source: ADD International, www.add.org.uk).
