Rainbow Disability Nepal
Rainbow Disability Nepal is a powerful advocate for a marginalized community often overlooked in development efforts: LGBTQI+ persons with disabilities.
SHRUTI
SHRUTI (National Association of the Hard of Hearing and Deafened, Nepal) is a pioneering organization focused on addressing the issues of HoH and Deafened people all over the country.
ACPDH Burundi
ACPDH is a community-based human rights association dedicated to the promotion and protection of universal human rights. They provide advice and support to people that have faced discrimination, injustice and displacement.
Social Development and Education Trust
The Social Development and Education Trust (SDET), in Virudhunagar District in Tamil Nadu, provides academic and vocational education for children and young people with special educational needs resulting from learning and physical disabilities.
GMSP
Gramin Mahila Srijansil Pariwar (GMSP) is a women-led, women-focused NGO founded in Nepal’s Sindhupalchowk District in 1993. Their objective is to prevent the trafficking of women and girls, prevent gender-based violence, and promote development programmes for women.
Deaf Development and Information Association
DDIA is a Deaf-led Ethiopian NGO that aims to improve the lives of young deaf people through education, training, information, awareness, Sign Language and support.
Disabled Human Rights Centre, Nepal
DHRC is a national disabled people’s organization formed in 2000 to promote the political, social, legal and economic rights of all disabled people.
KOSHISH
KOSHISH means ‘making an effort’, and is the first mental health self-help organization in Nepal fighting to improve mental health policy, quality of care, and to challenge prejudice and discrimination suffered by people affected by mental illness.
Berhan Lehetsanat
Berhan Lehetsanat (‘Light for Children’) is an Ethiopian NGO based in Addis Ababa. Their work is primarily with disabled children and focuses on education, health and livelihoods using a community-based development approach.
AJODEMO
Associação dos Jovens Deficientes de Moçambique, the national disabled youth association, works to prevent the marginalization and exclusion of disabled young people from educational and employment opportunities.