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Sightsavers’ Peter Anomah-Kordieh Kwasi shares successes and what we learned from the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie participation project, which Sightsavers supported as a partner to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Peter Kwasi, June 2023

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Through Ghana Somubi Dwumadie, Sightsavers’ Diane Kingston delivered training that will help protect and promote effective mental health provision and human rights in Ghana.

Diane Kingston, June 2023

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Sightsavers’ Simon Brown shares how organisations like Sightsavers can influence labour markets to be more inclusive of people with disabilities in decent employment.

Simon Brown, June 2023

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Sightsavers’ Saleck Ould Dah and Ujala Sarfaraz highlight two key issues around disability inclusion that are hampering efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Sightsavers, June 2023

As part of an Inclusion Works programme, Manuel, who has a physical disability, assists a colleague to check in a guest at a hotel in Kenya.

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Sightsavers has partnered with the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance to help make the hospitality sector accessible to everyone, with a particular focus on Africa and Asia.

April 2023

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Sightsavers’ Laurène Leclercq shares successes from an award-winning project in Cameroon and Senegal that’s supporting people with disabilities to participate in all aspects of political life.

Laurène Leclercq, March 2023

A still image from the film I Didn't See You There, showing the silhouette of a man in a wheelchair reflected in a doorway, with a colourful circus tent in the background.

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A Sightsavers-supported film about disability rights will feature in the Human Rights Watch Film Festival at the Barbican in London on 16-26 March.

March 2023

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame speaking into a microphone.

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Gertrude, who is Sightsavers’ global advocacy manager for social inclusion, becomes the first African woman to lead the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

March 2023

During a press interview in Senegal, a man faces a video camera while speaking into a microphone. Three fellow event attendees are standing behind him.

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The initiative outlines the steps needed to ensure that people with disabilities are represented in official data, which will inform the government’s planning and monitoring.

December 2022

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The prize was awarded for our inclusion project which promotes the rights of people with disabilities to participate in civic and political life in Cameroon and Senegal.

December 2022

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Disability and inclusion

“In Ghana, the work we began on disability inclusion will continue”

How we’re championing mental health and human rights in Ghana

Why disability-inclusive employment benefits all of us

Why disability rights are integral to the Sustainable Development Goals

Sightsavers partnership aims to improve inclusion in hospitality

How we’re transforming political participation in Cameroon and Senegal

Sightsavers-supported film challenges preconceptions of disability

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame elected chair of UN disability committee

Senegal launches action plan to collect high-quality inclusive data

Sightsavers wins Zero Project award for work on political participation

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