In order to improve the access of people with disability to quality health services, even in isolated areas of Kashmir, Handicap International is supporting the Hope Disability Center, a local organization working in three districts of the Jammu and Kashmir state. Asif Haider, a 14 year old boy, is one of the many beneficiaries of this project.
Patricia is the new owner of a chicken-rearing business in Frontino (Colombia) that allows her to support herself financially. Patricia has a disability that used to prevent her from working. But thanks to a project run by a local organization called Corfrodis, in partnership with Handicap International, for the first time in her life, she earns her own income. And has confidence in herself.
On 24 April, the Handicap International team in Lebanon restored two plots of cleared land to villagers from Toula, in the district of Batroun as part of a demining project launched 20 months earlier.
New life. It produces beautiful and moving images. Layla Aerts, Bieke Depoorter and Katrijn Van Giel show how a mom-to-be experiences pregnancy and the birth of her child and how she sees her child grow, with ups and downs…..Joy, love, relief, happiness…wherever in the world, all brand new moms feel the same.
The Phone House, leader in the sales of products and services in the field of telecommunications, is supporting Handicap International throughout 2012 with special initiatives in its shops. One of these initiatives will take place throughout the month of May.
Mohamed is a 13 year old boy from Benghazi. He has one brother and three sisters. On Monday the 21st of March 2011, Mohamed was playing football with his friend in front of his apartment block, when he saw a shiny golden metal object next to a tree nearby. On his way up to his family’s apartment, Mohamed started hitting it against the wall. The object was a submunition. It exploded and...
Catherine Gillet, director of the East Timor programme, tells us more about the launch of actions in this country without responsive services.
Nzuzi cannot walk. But her parents still decide to send her to school. She goes on to become a lawyer and the family’s main breadwinner. A symbol of hope? Of course. But it’s also a success story the managers of Kinshasa’s inclusive education project would like to see repeated more often. Because in reality Nzuzi is the heroine of a comic strip from the DRC,a fictional character...
Alain was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After managing Handicap International’s inclusive education project for nearly three years, from 2008 to 2011, Alain now works as an operational project coordinator in the DRC. Here, he recalls his experiences and talks about the organisation’s work in aid of children with disabilities.
Explosive remnants of war continue to hurt or kill Libyan civilians, six months after the fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. A boy of thirteen years died, last week, following the explosion of unexploded ordnance, in Zlitan, a coastal town located about fifty kilometers from Misrata. In the region, 80% of recorded casualties were under 23 years. Children and adolescents are the most...
