Travel Photos from the year 2010

Ethiopia | Nepal | Cambodia |Mosambique | Kyrgyzstan | Kenia | Ghana & Tanzania | Somaliland

Ethiopia

Abilis Chairperson Mr Kalle Könkkölä and Executive Director Ms Marjo Heinonen visited Ethiopia in March 2010. Negotiations were held with the Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development, ECDD, Abilis Partner Organisation, in order to further develop the cooperation. The team visited ongoing projects in Addis Ababa and Awasa.

Abilis Chairperson Mr Kalle likes to encourage the work of disabled entrepreneurs. The lady in the picture sustains her family by running a small retail shop in Addis Ababa.

 

Abilis Partner Organisation Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development, ECDD has a pilot task of training Assistant Facilitators able to work with PWDs from different tribes in languages of their homeland.

Hulegeb Yeayne Siwranna, Creating sustainable Income Generating Activity is engaging PWDs in grinding mill services. The project is administered by a cooperative of 54 disabled persons. Besides two grinding machines, members are running carpentry and handicraft workshops and keeping a small shop for selling their products.

The Bamboo Works project of Salu Self Help Blind and Handicapped Association, SSHBHA, Awassa is training 15 members to earn their living by producing interior decoration items.

 

Taye Leprosy Disabled Persons Self - Help Work Group, Provision of Cafeteria Services for Public. Members are earning their living by running a popular restaurant nearby a hospital area. They also keep a small guesthouse for family members visiting hospitals.

 

Nepal

Abilis Board member Ms Liisa Kauppinen and Project Coordinator Ms Marina Kitaigorodski made a negotiation and monitoring trip to Nepal in November 2010. Besides DPOs in Kathmandu they paid a visit to Abilis funded projects in Bagmati and Janakpur.

Hetaunda regional Office of National Federation of the Disabled Nepal, NFDN. Abilis delegation with the staff of NFDN Hetaunda Branch and other local activists.

Nepal Disabled Women Association (NDWA), Kathmandu. Accountant of NDWA and Abilis Project Coordinator Marina.

Abilis Board member Ms Liisa Kauppinen in conversation with Honorable Raghav Bir Joshi, Deaf Member of the Parliament.

National Committee of Deaf Women, NCDW under Nepal National Federation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, NFDH, Kathmandu. On the left chairperson of the Committee Ms Kalpana Bajracharya.

Kathmandu Association of the Deaf, KAD. Introduction to Nepal Sign Language was given according to Nepal Sign Language Dictionary - part of the dictionary is on the wall behind the teacher.

Bakery Cafe, Katmandu, Nepal. Deaf and hearing waiters work together in Bakery Cafe. Waiters in check shirts are deaf and waiters in white shirts are hearing.

 

 

Cambodia

Abilis Board Member Mr Pekka Tuominen, Project Coordinators Ms Andrea Fichtmüller and Mr Arto Vilmi paid a negotiation visit to Abilis Partner Organisation Cambodian Disabled People´s Organisation, CDPO in November 2010. The delegation visited some project applicant organizations and some ongoing projects in Phnom Penh, Battambang, Kampong Speu and Svay Rieng regions.

 

Abilis team attending the International Disability Day celebrations on 3 Dec 2010 in Phnom Penh.

International Disability Day Exhibition stands of Cambodian Students with Disabilities.

 

Phnom Penh Center for Independent Living - Personal Assistant Service to PWDs.

Mr. Pich Saroeun, Executive Director of the Battambang Disabled People's Organization has himself developed his own motorized tricycle. Leg and arm amputations do not prevent him from driving.

Disabled Women group from Bak Ronas village, Svay Teap district, Svay Rieng Province will soon get their IGA-project application ready.

 

 

 

2010 Kenia

Abilis Project Coordinators Mrs Tuula Heima-Tirkkonen and Mr Slade Mwiinde Syakango made a monitoring visit to Kenya in October 2010. In Kisii they met Abilis Ugandan Partner Organisation NUDIPU's Abilis Facilitator Mrs Rose Achayo Obol and Assistant Facilitator Ms Beatrice Nafuna - both here in the middle of the photo. Some of the projects in West Kenya were monitored together.

 

Lari Division Physically Disabled Self Help Group, Thika. Disabled Environment Conservation and Livelihood Sustainable –project. Group members are giving their reports and sharing experiences. Cows and sustainable agriculture will help develop food security and ensure their families' livelihood.

Kogertai Disabled Group; Vocational Skills Training for Physically Disabled Youths project took place at Kipchimchim Hostel in Kericho by the road to Kisii. They had already got orders for several hundreds of school uniforms. They also had a shop for selling their products in the market by the highway.

Ogutarise Disabled Women’s Centre; Empowerment of Disabled Women and Girls project, in Oyugis. Discussion with group members was held in the light of an oil lamp and lightning over the Lake Victoria.

 

Regional Deaf Women Initiative Network in Kisumu had their offices with West Kenya Deaf Development Group. One part of the project Rehabilitation of Deaf Women Commercial Sex Workers was implemented in Kisumu area among other main cities of Kenya.

2010 Mosambique

At the end of September 2010 Abilis Executive Director Marjo Heinonen and Project Coordinator Jaana Linna made a monitoring trip to Mozambique. Discussions with Abilis Partner Organisation Handicap International Mozambique were also held.

CINFORTECNICA Associacão de Jovens Tecnicos Portadores de Deficiência de Mocambique - Maputo

This IT project in Maputo was implemented by a cross-disability organization called CINFORTECNICA. Blind, deaf and physically disabled people were taught how to use computers.

The CINFORTECNICA project participants are posing with their course diplomas. The Executive Director of Abilis, Ms. Marjo Heinonen presented the diplomas and congratulated all participants.

Avante dificiente, AMDV, Associacão Mocambicana dos Dificientes Visuais, Maputo, is the implementing organization of the project Income Generating Activities - Poultry keeping by Visually Impaired of Mozambique.

This is a poultry raising project in Mozambique.

A promocão do Desporto entre Pessoas com Deficiência, Associacão de desporto da Pessoas Portadoras de Deficiência da cidade de Maputo (ADPPD), Disabled Persons' Sports Association.

 

Young disabled athletes are participating in a track and field game in Maputo, Mozambique. Abilis is supporting an organization of disabled athletes, ADPPD.

A group photo with ADPPD activists and the Abilis delegation. The goal of ADPPD is to help young disabled people to integrate into society by supporting their sports activities.

2010 Kyrgyzstan

Abilis Vice President Rev Ari Suutarla and Project Coordinator Ms Marina Kitaigorodski visited Kyrgyzstan in September 2010. Discussions and workshops with Abilis Partner Organization RAVENSTVO were held. Project monitoring focused on the vicinity of the capital city Bishkek.

Abilis Facilitator Mrs Gulmira Kazakunova with RAVENTSVO staff and Abilis delegation gathered for a group picture before training.

Abilis delegation meeting representatives of Moment of Youth with Disabilities; Happiness of Maternity - project begun in May 2010.

DAO LOV ODA - Fond, Tokmok City, has opened a fitness centre for rehabilitation of people with disabilities thanks to Abilis funding.

Rehabilitation Center JUVENTUS for disabled children and youth had a decent ramp to their premises.

OO Talykbas Ata - Group of Amputees are applying for better equipment to their carpentry workshop.

2010 Ghana & Tanzania

Ghana and the new Partner Organisation VOICE were visited in January 2010 by Executive Director Ms Marjo Heinonen and Project Coordinator Ms Jaana Linna. From Ghana Ms Marjo Heinonen  continued to Tanzania, where she joined Project Coordinator Ms Andrea Fichtmüller. In Dar es Salaam they had meetings with the Information Centre on Disability, ICD, Abilis Partner Organisation, in order to discuss adjustments; a visit to Mwanza was also made.

Ghana: Kadjebi Disabled Women Association was in the beginning stages of their project Vocational Training. Some ladies want to become hair dressers, some bakers and some others tailors.

Ghana: Big meeting of Abilis grant applicants in spacious hotel.

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Tanzania:

TAS – Tanzania Albino Society, TAS is working hard to get the stigma off from the albino born inhabitants of Tanzania. Vocational training for albino girls.

2010 Somaliland

Monitoring visit to Somaliland was done in March 2010. Abilis Vice President Rev Ari Suutarla and Project Coordinator Ms Tuula Heima-Tirkkonen monitored many ongoing project activities in Hargeisa. The visit was hosted by Somaliland National Disability Forum, SNDF.

Hargeisa School for the Deaf had finalized their Somali Sign Language development project.

Rev Ari Suutarla gave a sensitization speech about how it was to have been a disabled child in an information meeting for parents of disabled children in Hargeisa. SNDF Chairperson Mahamed Aden Dualeh translated into Somali.