Disability is not Inability

:: executive summary

:: background 1

:: background 2

:: problem statement

:: justification.

:: Methodology

Lessons can be learnt from other sources(29) that can help develop affordable interventions that empower the disability community.

Implementation of the persons with disability ACT needs to learn from the implementation of the children’s ACT(30). We should empower more local, provincial and national organizations to participate in the identification, implementation monitoring and evaluation of the disability ACT. This requires that they are aware of what they we can do differently, what we can view differently and the legal implications of certain negative actions.

There is need for more debate on the benefits, ways of inclusions and mainstreaming disability. People with disabilities need to lead this debate(31). We need to increase visibility of positive disability imagery into our social psyche. This would effectively integrate the disability agenda into constituency, political party and national social and political discourse. While a national campaign on electronic and print media would be ideal, a calendar would be a perfect start. We need to change mainstream media’s perception on disability with or without statutory self regulation(32).

A Calendar Media is one method that would effectively do this within our daily social environments as we relate debate and adjust disability-friendly environment. A calendar is a material used on a daily basis and equally a powerful advertising feature in various setting. It targets a diverse audience yet it can also be used in a workshop, a seminar or a learning institutions. It would grace the walls of a hospital, clinic or a CBO as much as an NGO, a government ministry or a chief’s office as easily as church offices as equally as a large multinational company where we seek work.

Identification, monitoring and evaluation of the many organizations who were able to lobby the government, media and community need to be mobilized to ensure effective support from ourselves, family, community, institutions, the mainstream media, politicians and religious community to achieve the fullness of life possible even when living with impairment.

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