Category: Civil Rights

Make Your Mark: Success Story of Anila

A story by the Tauri Foundation, Bangladesh The life of Afia Kabir Anila is full of struggle, determination and achievements. She is a volunteer of Tauri Foundation,Bangladesh currently a student of Law in North South University, a disability rights activist & motivational speaker and a recipient of “Distressed Children International’s (DCI) Young Leadership award in […]

Katrina Hart on World Cerebral Palsy Day

[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-kdnv9aok’ admin_preview_bg=”]Given World Cerebral Palsy Day’s focus on getting active this year, with their Move As One campaign, we spoke to Katrina about her experience of getting into support, her success, and how she sees things changing thanks to initiatives like World Cerebral Palsy Day. Katrina […]

Nick Schumi

Guest blogger, Emily Kachenko, meets the impressive young Nick Schumi from Adelaide in South Australia. World Cerebral Palsy Day is a social movement, of, by and for the CP community. Its vision is to ensure that everyone with CP has the same rights, access and opportunities as anyone else. Let’s meet Nick Schumi who has […]

People with Cerebral Palsy are #justlikeyou

Charlie McMartin, a young man who lives with cerebral palsy, has a message he’d like to share: “Bullying hurts people’s feelings and lowers their self-esteem. People with disabilities are just like anyone else. We just have greater obstacles to face than most people.” From May 28 to June 3, 2017, the Cerebral Palsy Association of […]

Hannah Awadzi: Special Mothers Project

In Ghana, children with cerebral palsy are often hidden from view, with no education and limited health care. Our guest blogger, Hannah Awadzi, started the Special Mothers Project to change this…