HIFA2015 November 29, 2010
BTW I note Neil PW's name in the thread - I may have mentioned him to you from online and London F2F meetings years ago about sharing health info.
From: John Dada <johndada@fantsuam.org>
Date: 29 November 2010 09:45:23 GMT+01:00
To: "HIFA2015 - Healthcare Information For All by 2015" <HIFA2015@dgroups.org>
Subject: Re: [HIFA2015] Communications on disability and community-based rehabilitation (4)
I'd like to expand Alero's observation about "those able to communicate their needs". For people with IDs in rural communities, the dice is heavily loaded against them, and when you consider that over half of 140 Million Nigerians live in such un-served, underserved communities, you begin to get an idea of the scale of the problem. Fantsuam Foundation's Mission is the elimination of poverty and DISADVANTAGE through integrated development programs (www.fanstuam.org). This has led us into undertaking baseline audit of disabilities in our host rural communities and a staggering 37% of households have one+ member who is disabled or has a disabling illness. Support for disabled people within the agriculture sector is a particularly neglected area. With 20% of world population having a disability, and 80% of those are found in the developing world, where subsistence farming is a predominant form of livelihood, this stands as a an area that must be addressed with some urgency.This is why for us the CBR guidelines, if it will address issues of quality of life, it must address participation of people with disabilities, especially people with ID, within the subsistent agricultural economy where they live
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