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• Disability-led centres providing a range of services for independent living

  FOH centres are run entirely by people with disabilities and aims to offer comprehensive services for such people in their home and throughout their daily lives. In 2017, 47 homes were adapted, 223 people were provided with transport, 120 people took part in sport or the arts, and 2,435 assistive devices were provided.
  Forum of the Handicapped, Lebanon

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  Building a tech infrastructure, training, and IT job creation for persons with visual impairments

  Living Dignity for the Blind, Myanmar: Offers decentralized training for visually impaired individuals in remote areas. The program has expanded to several regions, with trained individuals finding tech-related jobs.
  Living Dignity For The Blind, Promoting technology and capacity-building towards employment, Myanmar

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  A university training and employing students with intellectual disability as education professionals

  Inklusive Bildung Sachsen-Anhalt trains people with disabilities as educators. Since 2018, 5 educators were employed and 4 new trainees began in 2024, delivering inclusive education across Saxony-Anhalt.
  University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Competence Center for Inclusive Education Saxony-Anhalt, Bildungsfachkräfte (Education Professionals), Germany

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  Using a mix of radio and digital content to train young learners in rural areas

  Outlook Humanitarian Care Initiative (OHCI) from Nigeria has developed ‘Interactive Audio Instruction’, a mixture of radio and digital platform for distance learning. The educational offering is aimed particularly at women, young people, and children both with and without disabilities.
  OUTLOOK HUMANITERIAN CARE INITIATIVE, Interactive Audio Instruction – radio-based learning, Nigeria

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  Accessible micro-learning platform transforming training of frontline workers

  Musa is a WhatsApp-based micro-learning platform that delivers accessible, app-free training for frontline workers with intellectual or hearing disabilities. It uses plain language and short modules, reached 450,000+ learners with 90% completion, and operates B2B ($0.70–$6/learner).
  Edge Tec SAC, Musa, Peru

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  Training students to become leaders and innovators in accessibility and inclusion

  Değiştiren Adımlar Derneği (DADER), Turkey: Runs Campus of Colours, a programme for high school and university students to develop socially responsible leaders. From 2015 to 2023, involved students, 35% with disabilities, with projects winning awards.
  Değiştiren Adımlar Derneği, Campus of Colours, Turkey

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  Making e-mail communication accessible for persons with intellectual disabilities

  Kolumba is an open source software that makes a Gmail account more accessible to persons with intellectual disabilities. Kolumba has three features that can be switched on and off on when needed: A Text and content simplifier (Simplext), a translation tool fort ext and pictrogram (Text2Picto) and a Text-to-speech feature.
  Prodis Foundation, Kolumba software, Spain

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  Automated conversion of text into inclusive Braille within in the same document

  Boltay Huroof developed software that prints ink and Braille together and converts Arabic, English, Urdu and other texts into Braille. It halves Braille production time. Since 2022 it made 300,000 documents, reached 500 users, worked with 10 schools and six banks, earning $100,000.
  Boltay Huroof, Inclusive Braille Software, Pakistan

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  Affordable, custom 3D-printed prostheses for underserved rural areas

  Humanos 3D in Colombia supports 400+ prosthetic users via mobile clinics and open-source technology. Its 3D printing solutions reach rural areas, promoting affordable accessibility.
  3D Human Corporation, Mobile Clinics, Colombia

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  Network of users with visual disabilities creating and

  growing its digital library

  Tiflolibros is a digital library for visually impaired people in the Spanish-speaking world, launched by the NGO Asociación Tiflonexos in Argentina. Since its launch in 2001 until 2021, more than 65,000 accessible books have been made available free of charge.
  Tiflonexos Association, Biblioteca Tiflolibros, Argentina