Handicap International is the largest international organisation specialised in disability. We work alongside disabled people to provide long term support and emergency relief. Over half our projects were started to help people disabled by conflict or natural disasters.
We:
• Raise awareness of landmines and clear areas of unexploded munitions
• Provide artificial limbs to help disabled people become mobile and rebuild their lives
• Stand up for the rights of disabled people so they have access to education and work opportunities
Since Handicap International ‘s creation in 1982, our work has benefited several million people across 60 countries affected be poverty and conflict. Our vision is a world where all disabled people can fully access and exercise their human rights
Did you know?
There are 600 million disabled people worldwide. 80% of them live in developing countries.
50% of disabilities are preventable and directly linked to poverty.
Less than 2% of disabled children in developing countries receive education.
These children need your help
With the help of Handicap International UK, U Mong Wing learnt to walk
Handicap International UK helped Aline integrate into a new family
While collecting honey, Dam was seriously injured by a cluster bomb
U Mong Wing has suffered from cerebral palsy since she was a baby and up to the age of three was unable to move. With the help of physiotherapists from Handicap International and the support of her parents, this little Burmese girl is finally able to walk.
When Dam was seven years old he and his friends were collecting honey in the forest. They came across a cluster bomb, one of thousands that litter the Laos. Out of curiosity, Dam threw the bomb at a piece of wood. On the second attempt it exploded with devastating effects. Dam's injuries were life-threatening. Thankfully, a team from Handicap International was close by. After two months in hospital Dam made a full recovery. Thousands of others aren't so lucky.
Aline lost her entire family, apart from a brother three years her senior during the genocide in Rwanda. Aline was just a few months old when she was taken in by a centre for unaccompanied children and orphans. At the centre, she was entrusted to the care of Alphonsine, who lived at the centre with one-year old daughter Leonie. Aline had trouble integrating with this new family, but through workshops and home visits organised by Handicap International Aline began to gradually break free from her feeling of abandonment. Aline has now formed strong new family ties.
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