Disability Rights Awareness Month – Encouraging Building Owners to Prioritize Emergency Evacuation Safety | MyPR.co.za: MyPR: Disability Rights Awareness Month – Encouraging Building Owners to Prioritize Emergency Evacuation Safety: JOHANNESBURG, 13 November 202011 September 2019: Just before 01:00 on the 14th of June 2017, a fire broke out in the kitchen of a fourth floor … [Read more...] about Disability Rights Awareness Month – Encouraging Building Owners to Prioritize Emergency Evacuation Safety | MyPR.co.za
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Traditional beliefs inform attitudes to disability in Africa. Why it matters | The Conversation
Traditional beliefs inform attitudes to disability in Africa. Why it matters: An albino child and his mother get a visual test as part of programmes to expand social awareness for albino people in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo by Sodiq Adelakun/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesDisabled people all over the world are confronted with a range of explanations for disability. These can have an … [Read more...] about Traditional beliefs inform attitudes to disability in Africa. Why it matters | The Conversation
South Africa’s new higher education disability policy is important, but flawed | The Conversation
South Africa's new higher education disability policy is important, but flawed: Universities should be working to make spaces more accessible for students and staff with disabilities. ShutterstockSouth Africa finally has a disability policy that’s specific to the higher education sector. The new policy framework should be celebrated as an achievement. Its value is that, because … [Read more...] about South Africa’s new higher education disability policy is important, but flawed | The Conversation
Creating Greater Accessibility and Assisting Disability Through Technology
Creating Greater Accessibility and Assisting Disability Through Technology: Afrika Tikkun is a global not-for-profit organisation working to develop, empower and support the youth of South Africa in disadvantaged communities in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Their intention is to shape the youth of today to become the next generations leaders of tomorrow. The approach that they … [Read more...] about Creating Greater Accessibility and Assisting Disability Through Technology
Why South Africa should redefine disability to include infertility | The Conversation
Why South Africa should redefine disability to include infertility: shutterstock Infertility, the inability to conceive or sustain a successful pregnancy, affects more than 48 million couples in the world. Of these, ten million live in Sub-Saharan Africa. The prevalence of infertility is much higher in developing countries than in the developed world. This is due to a number … [Read more...] about Why South Africa should redefine disability to include infertility | The Conversation
