‘Employable Me’ follows the progress of job seekers with a disability

Global, Misc., June 23 2021 CBM Global in partnership with the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities have launched three country reports highlighting in more depth the impact COVID-19 has had on persons with disabilities in Bangladesh, Bolivia and Nigeria. The reports aim to reflect country progress a year after the pandemic. The findings are framed within future policy […]

MAI are making the most of their space and budget with paid residencies for four groups of under-represented artists with visible or invisible disabilities. Corpuscule Danse co-director and amputee Marie-Hélène Bellavance is one of the featured artists. She joins Global’s Laura Casella to talk about her dance project

Lindsey Cooke with Manitoba Possible joins Global News Morning’s Kahla Evans with more on Manitoba Access Awareness Week and why the entire community should get involved.

New Brunswick’s largest beach will once again be open to the public starting Friday and visitors to Parlee Beach Provincial Park will notice some changes that include improved access for those with disabilities. “We have been lobbying for years now to make the entire province accessible,” said Mathieu Stever, the manager of the ParaNB […]

The province is introducing legislation to provide an income support program for Manitobans with severe and prolonged disabilities. Current legislation puts Manitobans with severe and prolonged disabilities in the same category as those experiencing temporary losses of employment due to shorter-term or less severe disabilities. The province says Bill 72 would create a program […]

Asia-Pacific, Assistive Technology, News, November 6 2019 INDIA: A new affordable ‘standing wheelchair’ that enables persons with disabilities to shift between standing and sitting positions independently, has been indigenously designed by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in collaboration with Phoenix Medical Systems. It was launched here on Tuesday. Union Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot with differently […]

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Assistive Technology, Europe, September 25 2019 TURKEY: Turkey’s state-run aid agency has distributed a total of 200 wheelchairs and vocational supplies to disabled people in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, according to a statement on Monday. Turkey’s state-run aid agency continues to touch people’s lives in Africa, providing wheelchairs for persons with […]

  Anuprayaas, a Bengaluru-based social enterprise is on a mission to change this. The organisation is not only working towards creating inclusive neighbourhoods but also sensitising people about different disabilities. In a first of sorts, it has collaborated with the Indian Railways to give the country its first ever blind-friendly railway station in Mysuru. “Equal access to public places is a right, not […]

[ad_1] Americas, April 19 2019 The Tower and the 1976 Olympic Games Olympic Stadium, a symbol of the city of Montreal in Québec, Canada, can now be explored with the fingertips. They have been reproduced as a tactile model for people with visual disabilities, thanks to a collaboration between the Olympic Park, Kéroul and Tactile […]