KA TUTANDIKE JOINS DISABILITY NGOS TO CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DISABILITY ON 3 DECEMBER
3 December 2011 marked the seventeenth year since Uganda started celebrating the International Day of Disability and this time round, it was celebrated under the line theme ‘Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development’. The event brought together participation from Government which was represented by the Third Deputy Prime Minister – Moses Ali who presided over the ceremony and the Minister for Gender, Labour and Social Development – Saidah Bumba, individuals, schools and most importantly the Civil Society Organizations (CSO) family that is in the struggle of advocating and fighting for the rights of PWDs in Uganda and these included; National Union of Disabled Persons in Uganda (NUDIPU), Community Based Rehabilitation Alliance (COMBRA), Action on Disability and Development (ADD), Sign Health Uganda, Independent Development Fund (IDF), Sense International in Uganda, Uganda National Action on Physical Disability (UNAPD), Jinja Foundation of Women With Disabilities (JIFOWWID), The Disabled Women Designers (DWD), ADNA Foundation Uganda, Action for Youth with Disabilities Uganda (AYDU), Uganda Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities (UPACLED), Uganda National Association for the Deaf (UNAD), Uganda National Association for the Blind (UNAB), Uganda Parents with Blind Children Association, The National Council for Disability (NCDI), National Union of Women with Disabilities In Uganda ( NUWODU), Disabled Group Kole, Arua Mental Rehabilitation Center , and KA TUTANDIKE UGANDA. Besides what we would call the ‘common participation’ we also witnessed support and participation from international agencies like UNICEF and corporates such as the Standard Chartered Bank.
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