How to treat beneficiaries: If you are involved with an NGO for the disabled, read Chapter 2 of How to Build a Good Small NGO. It discusses the importance of involving and respecting beneficiaries. Interviewing & Counselling at the Grass Roots includes a section on recognizing and helping people with disabilities. A practical manual: Simple Devices to…
by Abdikadir Ismail, Maeve Moynihan , Elmubarak Eldaw & Miriam Winkel
Networklearning invites all its friends and colleagues to take a little time to think about their country and its children under the age of five. Why? Because these little kids are the future of the nation. If they are not reaching their full potential, the whole country loses out.
Are you working with children who have been through catastrophic events – wars, the effects of HIV/AIDS? Here are some effective resources:
What kind of minorities exist where you are? They may be racial, religious or cultural minorities. Or minorities of the disabled, the elderly, homosexuals.
“Rights without power are meaningless” is a statement that needs thinking about in the context of children.
According to WHO, adolescents face a world of opportunities and dangers. They are at risk from many things and may find it difficult to get help from services designed for older people in settled relationships. But they can also be seen as the group that can learn to protect itself: “In order for adolescents to…
“…in too many countries, lesbians, gays, transgender and bisexual people continue to face discrimination at many levels, including in employment and access to services, inequality in criminal and civil law, violence and harassment, other threats to life, failure to recognize relationships and families and lack of support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth”. The…
Older people are very often an invisible section of society. Many face abuse, neglect, exclusion and poverty. For example in some cultures 25% of the elderly have nutritional anaemia – the result of an inadequate diet. In addition, many as they get older develop some of the degenerative diseases of aging. And they may not…