Activist from across Asia and Africa are Leading their Work.
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Sheila’s Story
Sheila Opiyo is a disability justice leader and activist from Kenya. She is also part of the 2025 cohort of the Global Disability Leadership Academy. She is the Founder, CEO, and Podcast Host of Beyond Me Podcast, a platform dedicated to mainstreaming inclusion between persons with disabilities and those without disabilities. Sheila shares about her…
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Disability Justice and Inequalities Research.
A new research project. Liz Sayce is a principal investigator on a new piece of research exploring the link between disability justice and broader inequalities campaigns, and a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics (LSE). She explains why this research is so important, and how its findings can improve collaboration between movements.…
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disability justice and inequalities webinar
Uniting for Change. On 4 March 2026, we hosted a webinar called Uniting for Change: Strengthening Collaboration Between Disability Justice and Inequality Activists. People with disabilities often face unfair treatment in many areas of life, including jobs, representation, and recognition. These challenges are often linked to other forms of inequality, such as class, race, and…
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Meet the design team.
Lived-experience Design. Last year a group of women with disabilities from Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania worked together to decide how funding for women with disabilities should best be spent – and who it should be spent by. As part of the Disability Justice Fund for Women, these women – the design team – decided what the…
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Abigail’s story
Abigail is a hairdresser and disability justice activist from Ghana. She is one of the deaf women supported by the Women’s Wing of Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD), where she received skills training. Driven by her passion for hairdressing—Abigail has established a small business that she runs in a shared space with her brother. About the Women’s Wing.…
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Racheal’s story
Racheal is a tailor and a disability justice activist from Ghana. She is one of the young deaf women who have received skills training and support under the Ghana National Association for the Deaf (GNAD), Women’s Wing. Growing up, Racheal always admired fashion and design, and this inspired her to pursue tailoring. About the Women’s Wing. The Women’s Wing is one of the women groups in Ghana…
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Salamatu’s story
Salamatu is a disability justice activist from Ghana, and the leader of the Women’s Wing of Ghana National Association for the Deaf (GNAD). She is very passionate about advocating for the rights of deaf people and loves seeing them taking up the spaces and opportunities they rightfully deserve. About the Women’s Wing. The Women’s Wing supports deaf women across all districts in Ghana by providing skills training,…
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Disability Justice Fund for Women Grantees – Uganda
A participatory fund for women with disabilities. The Disability Justice Fund for Women is a fund designed by women with disabilities in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania, to make sure it meets the real needs of disability justice activists in these countries. Grants have been given out to grassroots organisations led by women with disabilities –…
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Juliana’s story
Juliana is the Executive Director of Voices of Women and Children with Disabilities in Ghana. She is taking part in ADD’s Global Disability Leadership Pilot that kicked off with an in-person week of workshops between disability justice activists in Nairobi, Kenya, earlier this year. She shares some of the challenges she faced as a person…
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Juliet’s Story
Meet Juliet. Juliet Mbambu is the founder and leader of Bwera United Women with Disabilities Association (BUDWA) an organisation of persons with disabilities in Bwera, Kasese, Uganda. BUWDA is a community-based organisation that supports women and girls with disabilities to learn skills, earn money and live free from discrimination and violence. “I always tell people…
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Jenipher’s story
Meet Jenipher. Jenipher is a member of Bwera United Women with Disabilities Association (BUDWA). She joined BUDWA and learned tailoring skills, which have helped her start earning some income. Now, Jenipher needs support to buy her own sewing machine, which would allow her to work independently and earn a more sustainable income. “I got to…
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Biira’s Story
Meet Biira. Biira is a member of Bwera United Women with Disabilities Association (BUDWA). Below, she shares her story of hearing about BUDWA in a village community meeting and what happened when she joined the group. “I didn’t go to school, and I didn’t have a job. I was just doing some casual work, digging…
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Meet the 2025 Global Disability Leadership Academy Fellows.
The Global Disability Leadership Academy Pilot. In April 2025 we launched the Global Disability Leadership Academy through a pilot in Nairobi, Kenya. For one week, disability justice activists from Africa and Asia met in person to collaborate and learn. The academy exists to support the unique but largely untapped leadership potential of disability justice leaders – especially…
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Zaina
Zaina is a resident of Jinja district in Eastern Uganda. She is one of the women supported under the 100% Homegrown project to set up a kitchen garden to grow food and earn an income. The 100% Homegrown project was funded by the UK government, through the UK Aid Match fund. Starting Kitchen gardening. “I…
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Ivan
Ivan is from Jinja district in the Eastern part of Uganda with his wife, mother, and children. As part of the 100% Homegrown initiative which was funded by the UK government, through the UK Aid Match fund, he trains and supports fellow farmers with disabilities to grow their own vegetables through kitchen gardening. He owns…
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Winnie
Winnie is a young person from Luwero district in the central part of Uganda. She lives with her father and her three siblings. She is also a student pursuing studies at secondary school level at one of the nearby schools in her community. She grows her own vegetables through kitchen gardening which has supported her…
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write to your mp
Fairer Funding for Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs). We know that disability justice activists are best placed to create positive impact in the lives of disabled people. With the recent announcement of the cuts in UK aid and similar reductions in aid around the world, now is the time to ensure that more funding reaches…