Independent Living Institute

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (TOMRIC Agency) - August 21, 2000

Giti Masule says people with disabilities in Tanzania often feel totally excluded from the mainstream. He has recently taken over as the new program manager for Action of Disability and Development (ADD). The Organization is based in the Mwanza Region in northern Tanzania, on the shores of Lake Victoria.

Prepared by:

Rannveig Traustadottir
Updated by Perri Harris

The Center on Human Policy
Syracuse University

June 1997

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The materials in this information packet were compiled for anyone interested in learning about the lives of women and girls with disabilities.

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People with disabilities are often invisible in movies and television shows, or, if visible, depicted in demeaning and stereotypical ways: as powerless, child-like, isolated victims, as bitter, sometimes psychopathic misfits, or as the "super-crip," who overcomes a disability with some extraordinary ability.

Moreover, storylines featuring people with disabilities inevitably resolve with a "cure" rendering the character "whole."

Review courtesy of Ability Network, Spring 1998
Canada's Cross Disability Magazine
Review by Lucia Dutton, Executive Editor

This is one of the best general, all purpose books I've read about disability. It tells us what everyone should know about disabilities in general, while providing much specific information at the same time. The outlook and the attitudes embodied in the book are both positive and universal. As someone who has lived with MS for many years, the author knows whereof she speaks.

by Eleanor Smith, Concrete Change

Tremendous improvements in disability access have occurred since I was a child in the 1940s and '50s, using a wheelchair from age three on. Many of these improvements have come to be considered customary building practices, helpful to the general population as well as people with disabilities. In earlier years, disabled people wheeled down the street looking for a driveway to getup on the sidewalk. Now, curb cuts at corners are common. In earlier years, children with disabilities often waited outside while their friends ran up the steps into a store to buy a trinket or treat. Now, new stores offer the freedom to come and go.

På åhörarplats i en av riksdagens lokaler fanns ett 50 tal personer - riksdagsledamöter och representanter från Independent Living- och handikapprörelsen.

Sonja Fransson (s) slog an tonen på dagens seminarium med orden "Hur skall en diskrimineringslag se ut?" Mot bakgrund av IL-Sveriges arbete det gångna året och bemötandeutredningens förslag om grundlagstillägg etc verkar det numera blivit allmän sanning att vi skall ha lagstiftning mot diskriminering - frågan är bara hur den skall se ut? Det är i första hand en framgång för människor med funktionshinder och i andra hand för IL-rörelsen som på kort tid vunnit gehör för det som står högst på dagordningen - lagstiftning mot diskriminering.

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Enligt en källa är mäkleri en påhittig avnämarbaserad inriktning för tjänsteförmedling som har sina rötter "i framväxandet av konsumentrörelsen och utvecklingen av konstitutionella rättigheter". Termen användes först på 70-talets senare hälft som benämning på en inriktning som utvecklades av en grupp familjer på Kanadas västkust, "som anser att deras svårt funktionshindrade barn hade rätt att planera sina liv och skulle erbjudas möjlighet och tillräckliga resurser för detta".

by Craig V. Shields, 1988