Organisations

Helen Keller Worldwide (HKW)

USA

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352 Park Avenue South
12th Floor
New York, NY 10010

Helen Keller Worldwide prevents blindness, restores sight and provides rehabilitation services to blind people, saving the sight and lives of the most vulnerable people. Programmes are working in thirty countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas. In an effort to provide services that effect long-term change, they aim to build the capacity of governments and strengthen existing infrastructures. Helen Keller Worldwide acts as a trainer and organiser and offers technical asssistance to the public, private and non-profit sectors that provide health care services at regional, national and international levels

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.