RESULTS celebrates the International Day of Persons with Disabilities

For the past few years RESULTS has been running a campaign to ensure that children with disabilities are included in education in the developing world. We’ve been focusing particularly on the work of the UK’s Department for International Development, pushing the government to ensure that the education programmes they run are inclusive.

Today, 3rd December is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Run by UN Enable, the day is an annual celebration of disabled people designed to create better understanding of people with disabilities and to promote their rights. To mark the day, development organisation Action on Disability and Development has produced a fantastic video talking about the challenges faced by many disabled people in Africa and Asia, which you can watch below.

MP questions DFID on education for children with disabilities

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which this year focuses on the theme ‘Making the Millennium Development Goals Inclusive’. The second Millennium Development Goal is universal primary education by 2015, but an estimated one third of those who remain out of school have a disability, and these children still face massive barriers to participation in education.

Yesterday the UK Parliament acknowledged this issue:

In a written parliamentary question Labour MP for High Peak Tom Levitt asked the Department for International Development (DFID) what steps they are taking to ensure children with disabilities have access to education in the developing world.