Creating spaces – for women with disabilities (WWD) to communicate and advocate for their rights in South Asia
Partners
Including Healthlink Worldwide, there are four core partners involved with the project:
Association of Women With Disability (AWWD), India - Founded in 2002, in West Bengal, this non-profit making, voluntary organisation works mainly for the empowerment and mainstreaming of girls and women with disabilities.
Based in Kolkata, AWWD has received the 2008 award from the National Trust (part of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment) for 'Best organisation of Women with Disabilities in India'. Kuhu Das, the Director of AWWD will accept this award on behalf of the organisation at the Ministry of Health in New Delhi.
Social Assistance for the Rehabilitation of the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV) - a voluntary organisation, founded in 1988 in Bangladesh and devoted towards mainstreaming the physically challenged and marginalised communities in our society. SARPV considers disability as a cross-cutting development issue, not a welfare or charity one. SARPV aims to build a society in which disabled people enjoy full participation.
Success stories from women with disabilities in Bangladesh
Association for Women with Disabilities (AKASA), Sri Lanka -AKASA or ‘the sky' in Sinhala, is the acronym for Aabadha Sahitha Kanthawange Sangamaya, the Sinhalese for the Association for Women with Disabilities. It is a network of self help groups of persons with disabilities or family members of persons with disabilities, with an emphasis on women with disabilities or female family members of persons with disabilities. AKASA follows a rights-based, bottom-up approach to development used by other grassroots NGOs in Sri Lanka
Other patners involved include:
United Aid for Azerbaijan
Bikash, West Bengal