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Housing and life-skills programme for adults with intellectual disabilities

In 2008, Mexico’s Fundación Inclúyeme began operating a programme that enables adults with intellectual disabilities to live independently by providing inclusive and serviced housing, support in finding employment, and recreational activities. By 2022 up to 3,000 people have benefited from the programme.
Incluyeme Foundation, Inclúyeme Adult Life programme, Mexico
Trainings on sexual and reproductive health for youth with disabilities

BodyTalk’ is a project in Viet Nam on the topic of adolescent sexuality. Initiated by the Liliane Fund and the Rutgers organization, both from the Netherlands, it brings together young people with disabilities, their parents, teachers, communities, and health care providers.
Liliane Foundation, BodyTalk, Vietnam
Programme enabling persons with disabilities to learn about sex and relationships

DisOrdinary Love’ is a no-cost programme that addresses issues around sex and sexuality through online workshops and one-on-one consultations with qualified sexuality counsellors. The programme was initiated in 2018 by the Disabled Peoples Association in Singapore and had more than 300 participants by 2022.
DPA - Disabled People's Association Singapore, DisOrdinary Love, Singapore
Sign language translation app for accessing services and businesses

Signs Media Kenya is dedicated to education, information, and entertainment in sign language. The social enterprise operates a news channel and has developed ‘2022 assistAll – an app that provides on-demand, 24/7 interpretation services and is available in English as well as Saheli.
Signs Media Kenya Limited, assistALL, Kenya
Smartphone app that provides audio descriptions of surroundings

RightHear is a start-up from Israel that uses beacons (small radio transmitters) as orientation aids. Nurtzer:ins receive information directly into their earphones once the app has detected the location. By 2022, RightHear had more than 30,000 customers and covered more than 2,100 locations worldwide.
Right Hear, RightHear, Israel
A free open-source tool for increasing cross-disability accessibility of computers

Raising the Floor in Washington, D.C., launched Morphic in 2021, an open-source program streamlining access to computer accessibility features. By 2022, it had over a quarter million uses on public-use computers.
Morphic, United States of America
Early stimulation programme for children with Down Syndrome in an academic setting

Centro UC Síndrome de Down, Chile: Offers a Developmental Stimulation Programme for children aged 0–6 with Down Syndrome, focusing on personal, cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal skills. Expanded from 15 children in 2017 to 48 in 2023.
Programa de Estimulación Integral del Desarrollo (PEID) , Chile
Inclusive education programme for children with disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa

Appui au Développement de l’Enfant en Détresse (ADED), Congo: Implemented the Tunafasi Programme in Uvira region for quality inclusive education. Raised school attendance from 5% to 68.5% between 2020 and 2023.
Tunafasi, Democratic Republic of Congo
Creating online-courses to support disabled people’s professional development

CSR Ukraine's Career Hub Pro: Freelance: Online training for young people with disabilities, focusing on freelance work. By 2023, trained over 150 individuals, with two-thirds receiving paid contracts post-training.
Career Hub Pro: Freelance, Ukraine
Free sign language translation application in Portuguese with millions of monthly translations

Federal University of Paraíba & Brazilian Government's VLibras: A public, free, open-source sign language translator with a vocabulary of approximately 21,000 signs. In 2023, VLibras had around 40 million daily accesses and performed about 3 million translations per month.
VLibras Suite, Brazil