Global Disability Summit 2025: 2nd – 3rd April, 2025 / Berlin "The International Disability Alliance (IDA), the Government of Germany, and the Government of Jordan will host the third Global Disability Summit (GDS). The Global Disability Summit aims to galvanize...
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Fruit pit carving helps disabled people make living on their own
5 December 2019 | Recent Reports
Founded by Ci Xiang, a 31-year-old man with intellectual disability, a service center named after him has given free lessons to 17 disabled people on fruit pit carving since 2016. Ci started learning the fruit pit carving in 2013 under the...
Norwegian government urges big companies to recruit more disabled jobseekers
5 December 2019 | Recent Reports
The Norwegian government sent a letter to 100 large companies, requesting that they hire more people with disabilities and gaps in their resumes, news agency NTB reported Wednesday. Among the companies that received the letter were Norway's multinational oil and gas...
Feature: Gaza’s disabled youth turns crutch into flute to express peace hope
5 December 2019 | Recent Reports
Iyad al-Kahlout, 22, often goes to the sea before the sunrise and plays flute for hours, attracting a lot of passersby who gather around him. While he was playing the flute, signs of comfort and joy appeared on the listeners' faces who applauded for him when he...
All are in for a healthy life
5 December 2019 | Recent Reports
Everyone can find some sports to do. That's what is promoted on China's National Fitness Day that falls on Aug. 8. Wang Jingping looks much younger than a 64-year-old. He started to go to gym three years ago after experiencing a serious illness. "I work out to get...
Feature: Namibia’s masseurs gain popularity
5 December 2019 | Recent Reports
Namibia is breaking new ground and training visually impaired persons to become message therapists. The 31-year old Martha Abed is the first visually impaired Namibian to benefit from the program and is also one of the first to start practising in the country. Abed...
Across China: Villager in wheelchair paints her way out of poverty
5 December 2019 | Recent Reports
With the help of her son, Lu Fengzhu headed toward Wutong township, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in her wheelchair to attend painting class. The 51-year-old is disabled due to infantile paralysis. She was unable to work because her hands and feet...
Nepal’s deaf students receive donation from China
5 December 2019 | Recent Reports
Over 300 deaf students in Nepal have been benefited by the school bag donation project of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA). Amid a special function organized in Central Higher Secondary School for Deaf in the capital city Kathmandu on Tuesday, CFPA...
Beijing 2020 can Winter Paralympics to a whole new level, says IPC president
5 December 2019 | Recent Reports
"Beijing can do for the Paralympic Winter Games what it did for the summer Games in 2008 and take the event to a whole new level." Said International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Andrew Parsons in an interview with Xinhua. The interview is part of the...
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