New "End Exclusion" awareness-raising campaign launched in October
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There are many poor people in the world.
Many of them are people with disabilities.
These people often do not have money
to pay for food, health care or education.
There is a campaign to make people see how important it is
to help people with disabilities in poor countries.
The website of the campaign is www.endexclusion.eu.
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A new campaign End Exclusion - Let’s Enable the Millenium Development Goals was launched to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in projects designed to reduce poverty.
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“Imagine a world where justice and equality rule. Where having a disability also means having potential, being able, taking part in society.”
Based on this vision, the End Exclusion - Let’s Enable the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)* project was officially launched in 17 October 2011. The project, which is going to last for 3 years, is funded by the European Union and implemented by Licht für die Welt (Austria), Light for the World Netherlands, Svetlo pro Svet (Czech Republic), the Dutch Coalition on Disability and Development (the Netherlands) and eRko (Slovakia).
Its objective is to raise awareness for the active inclusion of persons with disabilities in programme designed to reduce poverty. End Exclusion - Let’s enable the MDGs sets out to change attitudes so that persons with disabilities are perceived as equal and able individuals. Working towards more inclusive societies and emphasising the important role of young people as the main driving force to change, constitutes a key element of the project.
How can each of us participate? All over the world, people can join the project’s campaign, become ambassadors of social change and convince politicians to be committed to ending poverty and including persons with disabilities at all levels. By providing resources and other learning opportunities, the project also aims at helping journalists, politicians and other opinion formers to raise awareness in their networks.
Under the framework of the project, inclusive music and sports events will take place in Austria, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Czech Republic, while a relevant website has lately created. By hosting videos, photos and recourses and by proving information about events, activities and latest news of the project, www.endexclusion.eu invites people from all over the world to raise their voice for the inclusion of persons with disabilities. The website is available in English, as well as the languages of the partner organisations of the project: German, Dutch, Czech and Slovak.
Inclusion Europe maintains that expertise regarding the organisation of support services for people with disabilities lays to a large extent within the disability organisations in Europe. To encourage their involvement in development cooperation projects, Inclusion Europe together with its member organisations Lebenshilfe Germany and Mencap developed an online toolkit providing local, regional and national DPOs with knowledge of development cooperation issues, policies and contacts at national as well as European level. The toolkit is available in English, German and French at www.inclusive-development.eu.
*Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, 189 nations made a promise to free people from extreme poverty and multiple deprivations. This pledge became the 8 Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015:
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Achieve Universal Primary Education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Insure environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development
Source: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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