Words Matter Campaign Disability Awareness Week 2020

Inclusive Campaign

Words matter: Towards Inclusive Language presents words associated with the social model of disability compared to words associated with the medical model of disability.  Seven words associated with the medical model have illustrations that highlight the attitudinal and architectural barriers that restrict people with disabilities from full participation in society. You can notice in each…

World Rehabilitation Fund

Beirut Explosion Initiatives

The World Rehabilitation Fund (WRF) is contributing to the emergency humanitarian assistance response to the devastating Beirut Port Explosion of August 4, 2020 through its “Filling Assistance Gaps in Basic Rehabilitation Services for Refugees from Syria With Disabilities and Their Peers in Host Communities in Lebanon” (September 2020–August 2021) project within cooperative agreement awarded by…