Global News by Tag: disability
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Andreea Maria Szabo, who is in her 20s, says she found her husband on Romania’s first dating website for people with disabilities.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – Mauro Sorbellini, 41, pushes himself in his wheelchair while his wife walks by his side, resting a hand on his shoulder. It is a common scene of a common couple that have just finished dropping their son off at school, except for one detail. Sorbellini, who has spent more than 20 years in a wheelchair after he fell out of a tree and became paralyzed, must fight every day to complete routine tasks like this.
ACCRA, GHANA – Abigail Bentil Holton, 26, is blind. But she says that, despite her disability, she has achieved a lot.
Holton attained her Bachelor of Arts in political science and French at the University of Ghana. She is currently working with the African Forum Secretariat, an office associated with the Ghana Blind Union, part of the Ghana Association of the Blind, a nongovernmental organization, NGO.
More than a dozen members of the All Jammu and Kashmir Handicapped Association, AJKHA, began a hunger strike in Srinagar on May 25, 2011, to protest what they say is unfair treatment by the state government.
According to the association, there are more than 360,000 specially abled people in Jammu and Kashmir. The local government hasn't conducted any official state surveys to determine the exact number.
MUMBAI, INDIA – For the past 37 years, Aruna Shanbaug, 62, has been lying in a vegetative state in Ward No. 4 of government-run King Edward Memorial Hospital, KEM, in Mumbai, India’s most populous city, according to court records recapping a petition by journalist Pinki Virani for Shanbaug’s euthanasia, which judges recently denied.
KACHIDE, NEPAL – Jhamak Ghimire, 30, can’t speak or use her hands, and her lower limbs can’t hold her body upright. She slowly pulls her plate of food toward her with her feet and mixes the rice with dal, or lentil soup. With great difficultly, she takes the food to her mouth, which emits a constant stream of saliva.
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – At 12, Bwalya Mulenga says he already knows what it feels like to provide for his family. He knows the city like the back of his hand. Every day he guides his blind parents to and from downtown Lusaka, the capital.
“I guide my parents to a site in town where they sit the whole day and beg,” he says.