Famous people with disabilities

On Wednesday 19^th November the SHG met to research famous people with disabilities to make a poster about them to raise awareness of the abilities of people with disabilities. The members of the SHG are still learning their way around computers and search engines, but all succeeded in finding a picture and some information to email me on their ‘famous person’, including the name, type of disability and reason that they are famous.

A member of the inclusive committee suggested that we put up bill boards in each of the 10 schools that we are targeting in the South and each month put up a poster with the picture, name, disability and achievement of a famous person with a disability.

Together as a team of committees, the future looks bright for raising awareness on the ‘Right to Education for children with disabilities.’

Planning for International Disability Day

The SHG met to plan for what we would do to celebrate the International Disability Day. We will work together with the community committees to distribute brochures and posters on Wednesday 3^rd December and on the 5^th December, hold an event to include children both with and without disabilities..

The first task was to plan for a poster that we will put up in shops, schools and the community. We plan to introduce ourselves to schools at this point and to set appointments to meet with schools for further research in the coming year.

The SHG agreed that they would make a poster with a border of pictures to represent different disabilities.

• They will put the date and a big question mark to draw attention to the date.
• Next they will put the name of the day and a small definition about what is a disability.
• They will then put pictures of famous people with disabilities so that they can draw attention to the abilities of people.
• They will also find pictures for Paralympics and use them on the poster.
• Finally they will write about the rights of people with disabilities.

The group agreed to meet the following Wednesday to research this at an internet café. To ensure that research topics are distributed in a fair way, tasks will be put in a hat and each member will research whatever they draw.

We also agreed that each week, on member would be responsible for updating the blog about our meetings and activities. Aida wrote for the last two activities and Wael volunteered to write for today’s meeting.

So, keep your eye out for updates from the group on www.itsourright.blogspot.com

Community Committees to facilitate access to school and employment for children with disabilities

On Friday 31st Oct, the SHG introduced themselves to the two committees formed to raise community awareness on the abilities of people with disabilities and to help with transition from school to the work place.

The SHG did this in the form of a power point presentation, explaining the activities they had done in the past, and this, their current project. The presentation included the short films that they had made and was well received by the groups.

With these activities completed, we are now ready to begin on with our plan to research the situation for children with disabilities in schools in Sur.