Eyob (centre), who lives Chesafine kebele, had surgery, through the ELGW project, tocorrect his club feet. He will join his friends at the project’s local alternative basiceducation centre to catch up on schooling with a view to joining a government primaryschool.

DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSWorking with disabled people and their organisations in developing countries

• Strengthening partner organisations • Disabled children and girls’ education

• Disabled people’s rights • Mental health self help groups • Deaf children’s education • Disabled people’s livelihoods 20

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ETHIOPIA

Education, training and inclusion withHandicap National (HN)

The Education and Livelihoods for Women andGirls (ELGW) programme, one of four DDPprojects in Ethiopia, is currently in its third year offive, and is being implemented in 12 kebeles ofTulla sub-city of the Hawassa city administration.The project targets girls and all disabled childrenunder 18 years who are in school, or have droppedout, or who never enrolled, and a number ofmothers who have never been to school. A studyinto the reasons why harmful traditional practicespersist in this area and how they affect girls’ accessto education and women’s socio-economic status isbeing undertaken as part of ELGW. By the end ofthe programme we aim to have trained 585 teachersin special needs education; raised disabled children’sschool enrolment to 90%; improved the level ofprimary education attainment among all childrenso more qualify to progress to secondary education;

and increased income among 600 woman-headedhouseholds.

Through our Education and LivelihoodOpportunities project in S. India, which concludedsuccessfully in 2011, we came to know Seva inAction (SIA) who brought their wide experience ininclusive school practices to the project. Now SIAare joining forces with HN and DDP to shareknowledge and information in ELGW – anexample of south to south transfer of skills.

Funded by Comic Relief

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In our 21st year we continue to be guided bystrategic priorities which

• Create opportunities in education for disabledchildren including deaf children;

• Improve the economic wellbeing of disabled peopleand their families;

• Enable our partner organisations to advocate fordisabled people’s rights and influence public policy;and

• Help to strengthen our partner organisations

Alongside ELGW we are providing opportunitiesfor more pupils to attend and complete secondaryeducation at Tulla High School, the only secondaryschool in the area. Four new classrooms willaccommodate 200 more pupils in Grades 9 and 10(the key lower secondary years, after whichpreparation for higher education starts). We havealso provided resources such as laboratoryequipment and library books, the lack of which sohampered students’ ability to learn, and aresupporting 20 school clubs where youngstersengage in extra-curricular activities and broadentheir knowledge and skills.

Funded by Band Aid Charitable Foundation

Close to the school we are building a resource centrefor women and girls that will provide an informalmeeting space where women can also receiveinformation, training and advice, and girls at theschool can take extra tuition.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

Meanwhile we also completed a project to makeHN’s Addis Ababa headquarters physicallyaccessible, as a demonstration model as well as toimprove HN’s utility.

Funded by Guernsey Overseas Aid Committee

Our theme of ‘education and beyond’ culminatedthis year in the launching of a new four-yearproject, From Childhood to Livelihood (FCTL),also in Hawassa, which will energize inclusiveeducation among trainee teachers by embeddingspecial needs in the curriculum of Hawassa Collegeof Teacher Education, the largest teacher trainingcollege in the region. FCTL will also ensure thatfour vocational training centres in Hawassa becometruly inclusive and provide opportunities fordisabled young people to gain the vocational andenterprise skills they need to fend for themselves.

Funded by the BIG Lottery Fund

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Children who have never been to school attendalternative basic education classes at the newlybuilt centre which also provides literacy andnumeracy classes for women, Gararikata kebele,Tulla sub city (opposite page); Tulla High Schoolclassroom, Hawassa (top left); Communityparticipation in opportunities for alternative basiceducation and women's literacy (top right); Thefully stocked library at Tulla High School,Hawassa, Ethiopia (above)

NEPAL

Disabled People’s Advocacy forChange (DPAC) with Disabled HumanRights Centre (DHRC­ Nepal)

Now in its fifth and final year, and with many ofthe project’s disability rights and inclusion targetsincluded at least in draft form in Nepalese laws andlegal principles, DPAC’s remaining tasks arethreefold: firstly to keep up the pressure for adisability inclusive Constitution; secondly, tocontinue to build grassroots capacity to advocatefor disabled people’s rights; and, thirdly, to workin very tangible and practical ways to improvedisabled people’s economic security and wellbeingafter the programme ends. The immediate legacyof DPAC will be its reach via bigger and strongerDisabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) as focal

points to every part of the country. A big challengethis year is for disability inclusive elections so thatdisabled people will have their say in their country’sfuture.

Funded by UKAid-DFID

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Krishna (at centre) and members of RRUCOD, a focal point DPO for the Disabled People’s Advocacy forChange project, in Charikot, Nepal

The DHRC- Nepal team, April 2013 withmembers of 'Shruti' - the newly formed group forhard of hearing and deafened people they havehelped set up

Mental health services with KOSHISH

Two years ago we supported KOSHISH to start adrop-in mental health centre, the first of its kind inNepal. They have continued to provide a safe havenfor more than 80 women made destitute because oftheir mental illness. Through a slow process ofrehabilitation, family contact and counselling,women have now been reintegrated into theirfamilies or into safe houses. We have continued tosupport the KOSHISH team who are making greatefforts in campaigning for mental health services tobe included in the nation’s health and socialbudgets.

Our experience with KOSHISH has given theimpetus for developing new work in a similar veinwith Mental Health Aid Ghana in and aroundTamale, northern Ghana.

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Sujata started as an intern at DHRC-Nepal and then joined the media team while preparing for the NepaleseCivil Service entrance exams (above); Sujata shows her new skills riding DHRC's adapted scooter which wassupported by North South Development Trust (above right)

The KOSHISH team and beneficiaries at the drop-in centre, Kathmandu (middle right); MatrikaDevkota (at right), KOSHISH founder with teamleaders Shushmeera and Leela (right)

MOZAMBIQUE

Disability and HIV & AIDS – theIntegração programme

Integração finished its four-year span in January,2013. While the problems of HIV and AIDS insub-Saharan Africa have long been recognised andthere has been a concerted and resourced effort tocontrol and then abate the pandemic, we learnedfrom research conducted in 2007 that disabledpeople were being largely overlooked. Whether thisstemmed from mistaken assumptions aboutdisabled people’s sexual activity or was a functionof more general discrimination, our research(conducted in partnership with Mozambique’snational DPO, ADEMO) showed that disabledpeople were at least as vulnerable as the generalpopulation to HIV, and were almost invariablydenied access to AIDS mitigation services.

Together with ADEMO and a second localpartner, Miracles in Mozambique (MIM),Integração was our response to these findings. Withthe headline objective of securing the inclusion ofdisabled people in national HIV & AIDS policies,and in service programmes in two provinces ofMozambique, Maputo and Sofala, we set abouttackling the causes of disabled people’s heightenedvulnerability to HIV. Principal among these wastheir lack of knowledge about HIV and AIDS,largely because HIV prevention materials andmedia had not been designed with disabled people’scommunication needs in mind. Our research foundthat 80% of disabled people did not know whatHIV and AIDS are and 70% were unable to sayhow HIV is transmitted.

In a multi-pronged approach, we trained 266people – individual disabled people, representativesof DPOs, and personnel from service organisations– in HIV & AIDS knowledge and skills, and howto disseminate these at the grassroots. We ran radio

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HIV & AIDS training for trainers, Maputo city

debates, helped voluntary counselling and testingcentres to be more welcoming and accommodatingfor disabled people (including sign languagetraining), and talked to people in theircommunities. We combined this practical workwith a campaign for the government ofMozambique to honour its obligations to disabledpeople in the area of HIV & AIDS, which

contributed to the latest AIDS Strategic Planacknowledging for the first time disabled people’svulnerability to HIV and their equal right to AIDSmitigation services.

Funded by the BIG Lottery Fund

Alongside this major programme, we alsocompleted a project to make ADEMO’s officesphysically accessible, improving their utility and toget rental income.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

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Disabled people taking part in HIV & AIDSawareness training organised by MIM andADEMO in Sofala province (above); Training ofdisabled trainers for inclusion in HIV & AIDSmainstream programmes, Boane, Maputo province(left)

INDIA

Rehabilitation outreach with KiranSociety, Uttar Pradesh

We have been working with the Kiran Society toprovide rehabilitation services – primarily forchildren – in remoter districts of Uttar Pradesh andinto Bihar, where no other such services exist. Lastyear 3,600 disabled children and their parentsbenefitted from this outreach work, including theprovision of surgery, aids and appliances, homebased therapy skills training for families and follow-up visits to the Kiran Centre near Varanasi, while55 grassroots community workers were trained toprovide support in rural villages after the projectended. We continue to work together developingnew project ideas which will help to consolidate thecommunity based approach in Kiran’s villages. Lastyear we supported the renovation of a hostel toprovide accommodation for disabled schoolboysattending Varanasi secondary schools.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

Social Development and EducationTrust (SDET), Tamil Nadu

SDET was started to meet the needs of children andyoung people with learning disabilities in a verypoor district of Tamil Nadu. Their day care centre

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Students who are accommodated at Kiran Society'sVaranasi city hostel on their daily journey tosecondary school (top); The Kiran outreach teamled by neurologist Dr Moreno prepare to head outfrom Varanasi to villages near the Bihar stateborder to carry out a children’s assessmentprogramme (above)

provides education and rehabilitation for manychildren with special needs, work in which thechildren’s parents are closely involved, and which ismade sustainable by providing livelihoodopportunities for groups of parents. We havesupported both the expansion and the runningcosts of another arm of SDET’s operations, theircomputer training centre, which providesspecialised and tailored IT training for theirdisabled clients and very poor young people in thesurrounding villages, leading to a qualificationrecognised by local employers. This year alone,more than 50 young people have benefited fromthis training.

Funded by Logica CGI Staff Projects

Mobility India – technician training

As MI continues to receive internationalrecognition and funding for their trainingprogrammes, training technicians in prosthetics,orthotics and rehabilitation therapy also continuesto be an integral part of DDP’s broaderprogrammes. This year we also directly supported ayoung woman trainee on an 18-month orthoticscourse, who will be a welcome addition to the teamin MI’s satellite rehabilitation centre in Kolkata.

Funded by John De Ritter

BURUNDI

Improving deaf children’s education

Following research on deaf children’s education, ourpartnership with Ephphatha School has gone fromstrength to strength, with projects in developmentto improve the quality of education and to extendits scope. Over the past 18 months we have helpedto improve the physical aspects of the school with anew classroom and dormitory buildings.Investment in the school’s egg production unit isnot only producing a profit but has also added eggsto the children’s weekly diet. The parents’ groupformed last year is expanding its membership as itworks closely with the school to lobby thegovernment to honour its obligations to theeducation of deaf children.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

Also in Burundi we initiated a partnership withAssociation Communautaire pour la Promotion etla Protection des Droits de l’Homme (CommunityAssociation for the Promotion and Protection ofHuman Rights - ACPDH), an organisation whichseeks to include disabled children in child rights andchild protection policies. ACPDH also provides legaladvice and support to ordinary people who cannotpay for lawyers and they are one of few local NGOsassisting the resettlement of Burundian refugeeswhohave returned and are internally displaced.

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Children with learning disabilities at SDET

Afternoon revision break for Ephphatha schoolpupils

DDP partnerships with other Deaforganisations

We have agreed a formal partnership with the newUK charity, DeafKidz International, and we aregrateful for their contributions to projectdevelopment and fund raising efforts. We have alsoinitiated partnerships with the Deaf Developmentand Information Association in Ethiopia and withthe newly formed Shruti in Nepal, a self help groupwhich has been ‘incubated’ by our partners DHRC-Nepal, and which aims to address the specialproblems facing Hard of Hearing and Deafenedpeople.

YOUTH AND DISABILITY

Following the conclusion of the Integraçãoproject we have continued to develop work withone of its implementing partners, the youthorganisation MIM, which is well placed in theprovince of Sofala in the centre of the country,and has a cadre of enthusiastic and dedicatedyoung volunteers.

In keeping with the youth theme we havecollaborated with Associação Dos JovensDeficientes De Moçambique (AJODEMO - the

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There are no secondary schools for deaf pupils in Burundi. The pupils at the new bridging class pupils poseoutside their new classroom at Ecole Ephphatha pour les Sourds, Bujumbura where they will spend one year inpreparation for places in ‘hearing’ secondary schools

Mozambican Association of Disabled YoungPeople) who aim to take information about theUnited Nation Conventions on the Rights ofPeople with Disabilities to young disabled peoplethroughout the country.

Across the other side of the globe we met theMyanmar Independent Living Initiative, a youngDPO working towards inclusion and equalopportunities for disabled people in Myanmar, andwe are now in the initial stages of developing apartnership with them.

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ACPDH team meet to discuss new projectdevelopment at their offices in Gatumba, nearBujumbura, Burundi (top left); Cantol Pondja, thefounder of AJODEMO, a disabled youth ledorganisation. Cantol was a member of theMozambican delegation for the London 2012Paralympics (bottom left); Nay Lin Soe ofMyanmar Independent Living Initiative at the firstever jobs fair for disabled people held in Yangon,December 2012 (top right); The Miracles inMozambique team planning activities with youthvolunteers or 'activistas' in Beira, Sofala province(bottom right)

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Expenditure 2012-2013: £590,901

Programmes &Projects: £568,600 (96%)

Management &Administration: £15,475 (3%)

Fundraising &Publicity: £6,826 (1%)

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Income 2012-2013: £491,836

Grants: £475,250 (97%)

Individual Donors: £16,304 (<3%)

Other (Interest): £282 (<1%)

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The team from Ecole Ephphatha pour les Sourds wins the annualfootball match held to mark the Day of the African Child, June2012. They played Akamuri School for Physically DisabledChildren, also based in Bujumbura

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