Organisations

Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for|the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV)

Bangladesh

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3/8 Block-F
Lalmatia, Mohammadpur
Dhaka-1207

The aim of SARPV is to build a barrier-free environment for disabled people and to ensure their equal rights and opportunities in the main stream of social life. Its objectives are to raise awareness about disability isses in society; generate and explore employment opportunities; enable socio-economic rehabilitation; and establish equal rights and opportunities. SARPV runs an inclusive school, and has a library that is for SARPV staff and library members (see website for details)

Ephpheta Foundation for the Blind Inc

Philippines

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NVRC Compound
Burgos St., Project 4
Quezon City

The Ephpheta organisation specialises in the rehabilitation & skills training of the visually impaired (VIPs). The economic opportunities programme entails soap manufacturing, musical skills, massage & reflexology. The organisation also operates a blindness prevention program, housing for marginalised and visually impaired people, a home for elderly VIPs and a community center.

Action Group for Rural Organisations (AGRO)

India

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Shunmuga Bhawanam
36/3 Kavitha Ngar, Maharaja Ngar Post
Tirunelveli - 11
Tamil Nadu 627011

Aims: to identify poor farmer's wastelands and help them to bring their lands under forestry; to select poor communities and help them to access better health and other sanitation facilities including safe water and toilets for villages; to improve the standard of living of poor families by providing micro-credit through self-help groups (SHGs)

The Leprosy Mission International (TLMI)

UK

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80 Windmill Road
Brentford
Middlesex TW8 OQH

TLMI's mission is to minister in the name of Christ to the physical, mental, social and spiritual needs of individuals and communities disadvantaged by leprosy, working with them to uphold human dignity and eradicate leprosy. Their resource centre is open to the public

CBM

Germany

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Christian Blind Mission e.V.
Nibelungenstrasse 124
D-64625 Bensheim

A Christian disability-focused NGO with a focus upon the developing world

NWWC Health Education Centre

India

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Vahithabhavan Arriyancode
Ottasekharamangalam PO
Pin 695125, TVPM, Kerala

PADS work towards world peace and disarmament through poverty eradication, health, development and information gathering and sharing including networking. Resource centre open to the public

Kilimanjaro CBR - Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation Tanzania (CCBRT)

Tanzania

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PO Box 8515
Moshi

The organisation is concerned with any type of disability through rehabilitation and prevention. The organisation operates a successful community based rebabilitation programme in a remote rural area. It is staffed by trained, well-informed workers belonging to the area backed up by a specialist supervisor, who together have gained people's confidence.

Disability Studies Unit (DSU)

Sri Lanka

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Faculty of Medicine
University of Kelaniya
PO Box 06
Ragama

DSU's aims and objectives are to promote CBR internationally and in Sri Lanka through education, research and disemination of information. DSU has disabled staff. DSU has a resource centre which is open to the public and an enquiry service which is accessible by letter or telephone. It also facilitates the training of speech and language therapists and conducts research on disability issues.

ASSERT & Timor Loro S'ae Centre for Prosthetics & Orthotic

Cambodia

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Cambodia Trust
PO Box 122
Phnom Penh

Campaigning and working for equal rights for disabled people in an inclusive society. Equal rights and opportunities are promoted through rehabilitation, capacity building and advocacy. The organisation provides inexpensive and easily accessible rehab, prosthetic &orthotic services for the physically disabled. CBR methods are used to identify people that require support and help to access rehabilitation. The organisation also provides skills training and micro-credit schemes.

Disability Development Services Program

Cambodia

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PO Box 9206, Pursat

DDSP, "Disability Development Services Program", is a Cambodian non-governmental organisation launched in January 2003. This small organisation has changed its name from “Disability Development Services Pursat” to “Disability Development Services Program” since 25th January 2010.
DDSP is one of the few rural Cambodian organisations providing community services to disabled people and other poor people. DDSP works with all disabled people, their families and the most poor, but focuses on the most vulnerable, especially disabled children, women, landmine survivors and people with severe disabilities such as paraplegia and cerebral palsy.

YOU ABLE Onlus

Italy

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YOU ABLE Onlus is an International Non Profit Organisation committed to improving the quality of lives of people with a disability, both in Italy and abroad, by providing rehabilitation services, also for victims of wars, natural disasters or other emergency situations.

You Able Onlus was founded on 2012 by a group of experts, with disability and not, already working or volunteering in disability matters, searching an Organisation that will offer all necessary expertise to adopt projects with a full approach on disability - technology, rehabilitation, engineering, social inclusion, sport (marathons and paratriathlon), peer-to-peer support. 

Main achievements of the Association:

- Give access to technology trough creating a network of organisations worldwide 

- Promote sport in Italy and abroad

- Support the creation of independent orthopaedic laboratory or agreements with available services locally, upgrade technical skills, help to support a patient from the trauma to a complete rehabilitation

Advantage Africa

UK

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Advantage Africa
26a Market Place,
Olney, Buckinghamshire,
MK46 4BA
United Kingdom

"Advantage Africa supports people affected by poverty, disability and HIV to improve their education, health and incomes. Our work helps some of East Africa’s most vulnerable people to overcome prejudice, help themselves and build a better future for their families and communities."

OVCI

Italy

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OVCI la Nostra Famiglia
Via Don Luigi Monza 1
22037 Ponte Lambro (CO)

A NGO, recognized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that carries out projects of development cooperation for the benefit of people, mainly in children, in situations of social and disability through interventions:

Rehabilitation
Formation
Social work
Basic medicine
Development Education

The NGO works abroad in South Sudan, Sudan, Brazil, Ecuador, China and Morocco. It is active in Italy with the "entertainment groups" present in 6 regions

Capacity Building of People with Disability in the Community Organisation (CABDICO)

Cambodia

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#43 (in Wat Saravoan)
Street 178
Sangkat Chey Chumneas
Khan Daun Penh
Phnom Penh

Capacity Building of People with Disability in the Community Organisation (CABDICO) believes in a world where people with disabilities and vulnerable people in Cambodia have opportunities to obtain education, health care, and income generation on an equal basis with others.

CABDICO's mission is to support all people with disabilities and vulnerable people in Cambodia by responding to their basic needs in their community. At present the organisation works in two provinces of Cambodia – Siem Reap and Kep – mainly working in rural areas, where access to basic amenities and healthcare is limited, with children and adults with disabilities, their families, and teachers and community leaders

Humanity & Inclusion (HI)

France

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138, avenue des Frères Lumière
69008 Lyon - France

HI is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

On January 24th 2018, the global Handicap International network became Humanity & Inclusion.
This network is composed of a Federation which implements our programmes in the field in around sixty countries and of eight national associations.
These programmes or national associations are known as "Handicap International" or "Humanity & Inclusion", depending on the country.