Contrary to popular belief, diabetes is not a rich man’s illness. Indeed, there is a disturbing increase in number of people with diabetes in developing countries. According to the WHO, by 2030, 551.8 million people will be suffering from the disease. The sharpest (+50% by 2030) will be seen in the world’s poorest countries, yet the care management so vital to people with diabetes is...
A Mainstreaming center opened on 12-November, 2012 in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan with the aim of improving the self-confidence and livelihood of Persons with disabilities including landmines and explosive remnants of war survivors in order for them to find their place in the society.
Ban Advocate Rahmatullah Merzayee together with his colleagues conducted several meetings with local...
“Prevent children from becoming disabled for life.” That’s the main goal of the Handicap International physiotherapists in the South Sudan refugee camps. “30% of the children we’ve examined suffer from respiratory infections, 40% show clear signs of development delays”
Handicap continues to supply aid to the people of Haiti hit hard by Hurricane Sandy on 24 October. The organisation is handing out emergency kits along with chlorine to prevent cholera and preparing to expand its emergency relief efforts. The situation is extremely worrying: some villages are still cut off from the rest of the world, many people’s homes have been severely damaged, cholera...
Belgian Minister for Public Enterprises, Scientific Policy and Development Cooperation Paul Magnette paid a visit to the Handicap International (HI) Lao Country Office to acquaint himself with the organization’s work.
The 9th ASEM took place in Vientiane on the 5th and 6th of November under the motto “Friends for Peace, Partners for Prosperity”. It assembled delegates from 49 countries in the Lao capital, the first international political summit of this proportion to be hosted in the Lao PDR.
The ASEM is organized since 1996 as a biannual interregional forum for deepening the relations between...
Boniface Kapindo, 60, lives in a small village on the border with the Congo. This father of fourteen used to grow fruit and vegetables in the mountains but since he lost both legs and his left eye in an anti-personnel mine explosion, he has never returned. He was fitted with two artificial limbs at the Fort Portal rehabilitation centre supported by Handicap International. The organisation has...
Handicap International prepares intervention
Hurricane Sandy crossed Cuba at dawn on 25 October. “Despite Cuba’s highly effective civil defence system, Sandy caused very serious damage,” explains Irène Manterola, Handicap International’s field programme director in Cuba. “It’s an unusual hurricane and it gathered strength with surprising speed. It also passed...
"Even before the hurricane struck, our teams in Haiti were on alert,”says Laurent Davy, Handicap International’s director of emergency operations for Haiti. “Friday, we were able to deploy them to impacted areas to assess the extent of the damage and determine the needs of the population. Our goal is to provide the appropriate assistance to the most vulnerable people as...
The representatives of several of the founding organisations of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), including Handicap International, are today meeting in New York to celebrate the movement’s twentieth anniversary. This meeting will provide participants with an opportunity to review the highlights of the last two decades, in order to then turn its attention to new...
