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Citi South Africa Disability Career Expo, Nasrec, 24 – 25 May 2022

Career Expo, In Focus, In the News /

The Citi South Africa Disability Career Expo is South Africa’s largest gathering for promoting and enabling employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The event brings together 1200 learners, graduates and entrepreneurs living with disabilities. Corporate exhibitors showcase various opportunities ranging from bursaries, skills development programmes and jobs to the invited guests. This year’s exhibitors include […]

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Evacuating disabled refugees is Tulsan’s new mission in Ukraine: ‘The best protection is to get them out

In Focus, In the News /

Carrie Moss has dedicated her life to helping people with disabilities. It’s the reason she went to Ukraine in the first place. It’s what’s kept her there for the last eight years. But the Tulsa native’s skills as a physical therapist are not what her patients need most from her right now. Since Russia’s invasion

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National Down Syndrome Day is on 20 October: Employing persons with intellectual disabilities

Association of the month, In Focus /

About Down Syndrome Down syndrome is a chromosomal disorder arising at the time of conception. This is caused by an excess in genetic material when an individual has an extra copy of chromosome 21, commonly refered to as Trisomy 21, which causes delays in physical and intellectual development. The exact cause of Down syndrome is

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The Sub-Machine: Employment exclusively to persons with disabilities

Graduates, Learnerships & Workplace Readiness, Work Readiness /

The world’s most inclusive subtitles and captioning service provided by persons with disabilities The first subtitling company that provides employment exclusively to persons with disabilities has opened its doors in South Africa, from where it plans to grow and support its clients worldwide. Called The Sub-Machine, the company is a non-profit division of The Human Project, an

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Access to education for people with disabilities

Graduates, Learnerships & Workplace Readiness, Job Profile /

13 years since South Africa signed the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, has enough been done especially in terms of access to education for people with disabilities? Duncan Yates, the Mental Health and Neurodiversity Co-ordinator at the Wits Disability Rights Unit (DRU), says that although some progress has been made in addressing

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Victory for pupils with disabilities

Graduates, Learnerships & Workplace Readiness, Work Readiness /

The Pretoria High Court last week handed down an order (by consent), ordering the department of Basic Education (DBE) to make provision for all pupils with special needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The court order comes after the Centre for Child Law (CCL), represented by Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), took the minister of basic

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Visually impaired community faces education crisis and abuse by law enforcement

Graduates, Learnerships & Workplace Readiness /

Blind and visually impaired learners face a constant battle to get access to equal and quality education – especially during the pandemic. On 5 August, Blind SA held an urgent discussion with civil society groups and interested parties on the education crisis for blind and visually impaired learners during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nearly 50 people

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Civil society sheds light on issues that visually impaired women face

In Focus, In the News /

Blind and visually impaired women face many issues on a daily basis. To commemorate Women’s Month, Blind SA held an urgent discussion with civil society groups to shed light on issues that visually impaired women face. This was part of a larger discussion held on 5 August which also addressed the education crisis for blind

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Ninth Wheelchair Wednesday Campaign launched in Port Elizabeth

In Focus, In the News /

The ninth Wheelchair Wednesday campaign was launched by SPAR Eastern Cape and the Association for Persons with Physical Disabilities (APD) with a special tribute to late president Nelson Mandela in Port Elizabeth on Saturday 18 July 2020. Local personalities from all walks of life were tasked to spend 67 minutes in a wheelchair to promote

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