Alex
Disability and Access as a Social Justice Issue
Posted on: 08/18/2009 02:50
Social Justice in Canada and Disability
- Canadians with disabilities disproportionately live in poverty.
- Canadians with disabilities lack basic disability related supports to participate in community life including religious life.
- Canadians with disabilities want jobs, access to education, the right to live where they choose.
- Canadians with disabilities want the same opportunities and responsibilities as non disabled Canadians.
- Canadians with disabilities have been patient but that patience is wearing thin when we see all levels of government with surpluses and no substantive progress for our community.*
*Source Council of Canadian with Disabilities
32% of People with Aboriginal Heritage report having physical disabilities, twice the national rate.
Accessiblechurch.ca encourages you to become supporters of the Dignity For All campaign. A Campaign for a poverty free Canada
You can show your support on the Dignity For All web site. http://www.dignityforall.ca/
International Development and Disability
- Internationally Disabled people are typically among the very poorest, they experience
poverty more intensely and have fewer opportunities to escape poverty
than non-disabled people. - Disabled people are largely invisible, are ignored and excluded from
mainstream development. - Disability cuts across all societies and groups. The poorest and most
marginalised are at the greatest risk of disability. Within the poorest
and most marginalised, disabled women, disabled ethnic minorities,
disabled members of scheduled castes and tribes, and so on will be
the most excluded. - International Development cannot be said to be working effectively to reduce poverty and tackle social exclusion unless it makes specific efforts to address
disability issues.
Source Lessons from the Disability Knowledge and Research Programme (UK)
Find out more at at Accessiblechurch.ca new page on Social Justice and Disability.
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Alex
Posted on: 08/18/2009 22:31
In this short film from Camfed, you meet Exildah, a secondary school student in Zambia. Exildah dreams of studying to be a doctor so she can return to her village and provide her community with the high-quality health care that it needs.
About Camfed
Camfed is dedicated to fighting poverty and AIDS in rural communities in Africaby educating girls. Camfed began in 1993 by supporting 32 girls in rural Zimbabwe. In 2006, 300,900 children benefited from Camfed's program of educational support in some of the poorest regions of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania.
For more information to contribution or to sign up for the Camfed Voice eNewsletter, visit their site at www.camfed.org.
Alex
Posted on: 08/29/2009 19:29
YOU can take a stand and do it in under 1 minute.
Here is a basic outline of an email you can send to Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation for Canada.
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Oda.B@parl.gc.ca
Click on the link Oda.B@parl.gc.ca and the following email draft will pop up, all you have to do is add your name and address to the email. You can also edit the email or include personal information, like Say you or a family member, or friend has a certain disability.
Dear Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation
I am writing to you, to encourage the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to include disability issues and the disabled in all Government run or financed international development programs.
Internationally Disabled people are typically among the very poorest, they experience poverty more intensely and have fewer opportunities to escape poverty than non-disabled people.
Disabled people are largely invisible, are ignored and excluded from mainstream development.
Disability cuts across all societies and groups. The poorest and most marginalized are at the greatest risk of disability. Within the poorest and most marginalized, disabled women, disabled ethnic minorities, disabled members of scheduled castes and tribes, and so on will be the most excluded.
International Development cannot be said to be working effectively to reduce poverty and tackle social exclusion unless it makes specific efforts to address disability issues.
Remember to add your name and address at the end of the email.