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              • People during an initial interview.

                A nationwide strategy to fight mental health issues

                Implementation starts with visits by a mental health service team to community leaders, local health care personnel, as well as to traditional healers to discuss existing practices and to gain their cooperation. This is followed by education and training to introduce modern mental health concepts and their advantages.
                Government of Bhutan, National Mental Health Programme, Bhutan

              • Making schools accessible for children with physical disabilities in Afghanistan

                The project addresses the need for accessible school buildings for children with disabilities by developing inclusive educational environments with accessible ramps, handrails, washing rooms, and drinking water installations. As a result, from 2013 to 2016 more than 3,000 children with disabilities were able to access education.
                AOAD - Accessibility Organization for Afghan Disabled, Afghanistan

              • A young man wearing an apron stands behind a coffee machine in a coffee shop. He is pouring milk into a takeaway coffee cup. A woman in an apron is making coffee at a second machine in the background.

                Transforming sheltered workshops to offer vocational training and employment support

                Job Plus is a ‘training-employment-retraining-employment-re-employment’ programme for people with developmental disabilities to live and work independently. The project provides internships, short term work experience, and support services. Since 2018, 34 participants have found employment.
                Sohwa Aram Center, Job Plus, South Korea

              • Child Psychologist Palak demonstrates the Wear Your Emotions teaching tool.

                A programme that creates neurodevelopmental profiles and customized education

                The service operates on a monthly subscription basis. Users connect with their assigned child psychologist through video and email to create development goals and individualized education plans. Supporting resources are sent to the client's home. More than 400 families used the service in its first year.
                Mom's Belief, India

              • A person on the wheelchair looking for indicators on a map with two other people.

                Sharing the accessibility information of points of interest using apps and crowd sourcing

                In 2016 Mirairo launched a smartphone application with a screen reader function for collecting and sharing information on the accessibility of points of interest for persons with diverse needs including persons with disabilities, older persons, and tourists. In less than a year some 67,000 locations were uploaded.
                Mirairo Inc., Bmaps app, Japan

              • A person in the studio creating audio recordings of children books.

                International online audio-book library in Arabic language

                The International Accessible Library is a free online resource containing a wide range of literature and educational materials in audio format. The library contains over 4,500 professionally recorded audio books in Arabic that can be accessed by persons with visual and print disabilities worldwide, and it receives over 200,000 visits per month.
                AlManarah Association for Persons with Disabilities, Israel

              • Vocational training and meaningful jobs for persons who are blind or visually impaired

                The Nhat Hong Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired trains its students so as to enable them to join the open labour force as well as the supported labour markets in Ho Chi Minh City. The programme creates a personalized career plan that is not only tailored to the job search, but also to personal interests and skills.
                Nhat Hong Center for The Blind and Visually Impaired, Career Training Programme, Vietnam

              • Young students who appears to have psychosocial disabilities stare an image of a park with ferris wheel beamed on the wall. A teacher is standing at the side of the room observing the students.

                Children with disabilities learning with interactive wall and floor projections

                 

                Digital Dream is a Singapore-based social enterprise that began offering creative digital solutions for the education of children with disabilities in 2018. The iCUBE uses projections on walls and floors to create immersive and interactive environments that allow children to learn real-world situations safely.
                Digital Dream, Digital Dream, Singapore

              • A man sits in a wheel chair, while women are supporting children on round objects and holding colorful stripes during the therapy session at the early intervention centre.

                App-based family centred early intervention therapy in rural communities

                Amar Seva Snagam (ASSA) runs an Early Intervention Centre. To make its services also available in more distant regions, ASSA has developed a training program for community rehabilitation workers, including an app for ongoing support. Besides connectivity, the app serves to track the progress of the therapy.
                Amar Seva Sangam, Training of Community Rehabilitation Workers, India

              • A father and his daughter are looking at information material at a information stall.

                Free online platform supporting families of children with intellectual disabilities

                The Nayi Disha Resource Centre offers a free online platform for families with children with developmental disabilities. Building on this, the NGO has developed a program to support caregivers with limited digital literacy by using resources such as WhatsApp as well as workshops, support groups or family events.
                Nayi Disha Resource Centre, Online platform for empowering parents of children with intellectual disabilities, India