Supporting Activism for Inclusive Education.

We have been working with organisations of persons with disabilities to make education more accessible for disabled children.

ADD, together with Sightsavers, Sense International, Tanzania Cheshire Foundation, and Light for the World, has been working on a project called Inclusive Futures. The aim of this project is to work with organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) to make education more accessible for children with disabilities.

Everyone deserves access to education, yet disability discrimination often gets in the way. Organisations of persons with disabilities and activists know best how this can be overcome and we are proud to be working with them on this project. Their focus has been on advocating to reduce discrimination, making the school environment more accessible, and a focus on learning at home and in families.

We are excited that this project has won a 2024 Zero Project Award for the consortium’s work on meaningful engagement with organisations of people with disabilities across inclusive education projects in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria and Tanzania. The award will be presented at the Zero Awards annual conference at the United Nations in Vienna, from 21-23 February 2024.

Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) members from Bangladesh in preparation of International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

While meaningful engagement is good, we are excited to see more power given to organisations of persons with disabilities to lead this kind of work themselves in the future.


Raising Awareness.

In Bangladesh, ADD is working with organisations of persons with disabilities to ensure inclusive education for children with disabilities.

A big part of this work is raising awareness about this issue, which was the team’s focus this International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Masud is an OPD member and a young person with physical disability. He says:

“I have grown to become self-dependent and our organisations of persons with disabilities has also grown through executing different activities of the project. We have had the opportunity to participate in all the activities of this project and make decisions independently.”

Al Amin is a disability justice activist from Bangladesh and President of Alor Prodip Protbondhi Odhikar (OPD). He shares his experience and skills acquired being part of the project in Bangladesh:

“I am working in this Disability Inclusive Education project from the beginning with ADD International Bangladesh. This is a great chance for me as I am working for the children with disabilities being as a member of this community. I feel very lucky when I can support the parents to bring their children in schools.”

Al Amin.

We are also working with organisations of persons with disabilities in Tanzania to ensure inclusive education for learners with disability.

Moshi is the chairperson of an organisation of persons with disabilities in Tanzania called Amani Mwalukwa Group. He shares how the project has supported his activism with government bodies to advocate for and create more awareness for inclusive education:

“The project has mentored and coached us on sensitization and advocacy approaches, provided funding support for planning and implementing awareness raising initiatives. This has increased our skills and enabled us to conduct dialogues with local government authorities to demand for inclusive budgets and plans.”

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Borithy, a Cambodian man, Rose, a Tanzanian woman, Mary Ann, a white British woman and Shafiq, a Bangladeshi man and Sabina, a south Asian British woman stand either side of Fredrick, a Kenyan man who is seated in a wheelchair.
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