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...
According to the American organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Syrian army made recently use of cluster munitions. Handicap International is very concerned about the situation that civilians in the country are facing, given that they constitute the main victims of these weapons. The association condemns any use of cluster munitions and calls on all parties to the conflict to stop the use of...
The 9th Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF9) took place in Vientiane from the 16th to the 19th of October. This international civil society forum, whose motto is "People’s Solidarity against Poverty and for Sustainable Development: Challenging Unjust and Unequal Development, Building States of Citizens for Citizens" is organized prior to and in conjunction with the...
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...
“He’s 12 and arrived from Syria after he was injured in an explosion and hit by a bullet. He had to have one of his legs amputated and was taken to a facility in Jordan close to the border. Because of the lack of specialised facilities, he didn’t get rehabilitation care. Our teams identified him and since then they’ve case-managed him to make sure he’s monitored and...
