What we do
We are an ally to the global disability movement.
We partner with disability activists in Africa and Asia to help them access the tools, resources and support they need to build powerful movements for change.
The movement for disability equality is powered by the drive, vision and courage of disability activists.
Often disabled themselves, they have the passion to fight for change.
It’s their lives and their communities at stake. What they often need are the tools and resources to run effective organisations. That’s where ADD International comes in.
HOW WE SUPPORT ACTIVISTS IN 3 STEPS
1. Listen
Our work begins as a conversation. Disability activists tell us the change they want to make and what they need to make it happen.
2. Tailored support
Together we develop a package of long term support to help activists access the tools and resources they need to make change happen.
3. Building movements
We help organisations of disability activists build links with each other and build movements with unstoppable momentum.
See our work in action.
Millions of disabled people in Africa and Asia are still condemned to a life of poverty and exclusion. Right now, organisations of disability activists are working to fight discrimination and ensure every disabled person gets a fighting chance at living their best life.
Watch their work in action.
Meet the activists
Get to know the activists working tirelessly across Africa and Asia to end disability discrimination.
OUR KEY FOCUSES
Empowering Women
Around one in five women worldwide has a disability. For disabled women, gender-based violence and disability discrimination intersect to create brutal barriers to well-being.
Inclusive Education
For all
Every disabled person in the world should have a fighting chance at living their best life but that is almost impossible without going to school.
The right to work
Everyone has the right to make the best of the life they are born into: for most of us that means getting a job and earning a living so we can live independently and support our families.
Shaping global policy.
We work with disability activists to influence governments, NGOs and businesses to design policies and services that meet the needs of disabled people.
Disability is not inability.
ADD International aims to highlight and combat the social construction of disability. We believe disability is the process which happens when one group of people create barriers by designing a world only for their way of living, taking no account of human diversity. In front of these physical, attitudinal and institutional barriers, people with impairments become disabled.