Author name: WhatWENeed

Submission by Rights for Disability Development Foundation

Deinstitutionalization Content of Law on De-institutionalization: In today’s world persons with psychosocial disabilities have the right to enjoy life while  accessing services like other human beings in society, in line with the SDGs and the UNCRPD,  both of which tools base their approaches on the human rights-based method which emphasizes the social model as opposed …

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WhatWENeed Campaign Messages by Winfred Wanja Kirumia – Kenya

WHAT WE NEED Inclusive social protection: We need policies and programmes that are designed to understand the ways persons with psychosocial and invisible disability’s function and participate in their communities Community support: Persons with psychosocial disabilities require support to be integrated into their communities to enable them to participate in activities meanifully and to have …

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What We Need: More spaces to amplify voices of people with psychosocial disabilities

I recently had a great opportunity courtesy of TCI Global to accompany a team made up of leaders within the movement of persons with psychosocial disabilities on an exploratory mission in Tanzania and Rwanda. The leaders included us from Kenya, colleagues from Uganda, Pakistan, India, Indonesia and Nepal. It was a great moment meeting peers …

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Transforming Communities for Inclusion: Examples of practice
(A Photo Story)

A ‘Grassroot Conclave’ was organized by one of TCI’s founding members, Bapu Trust for Research on Mind & Discourse from April 6-8, 2023 in Pune, India. It was a gathering of the grassroot cadres of their partner organizations who had been trained to ‘program for inclusion’ and had been practicing inclusion in their communities. The …

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Paper on Intergenerational Solidarity and Inclusion of Older persons with Psychosocial Disabilities

Presented at: Joint Expert Group Meeting on Older Persons and Intergenerational Solidarity organized by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on October 10-11, 2023 at United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand. TCI was represented at the event by Mr. …

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Addis Declaration

Addis Declaration Persons with psychosocial disabilities and organizations from 5 countries in East Africa region met in Addis Ababa on July 26, 2022 at the East Africa Subregional Convening, organized by Transforming Communities for Inclusion – Global in partnership with CIC-Kenya, TRIUMPH, RDDF and UNSAI, and developed the “Addis Declaration”, through a consultative process, over …

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Submission for #WhatWENeed 2023 by Winfred Wanja Kirumia

Winfred Wanja Kirumia advocates for the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities especially young women and girls with disabilities. She trains persons with disabilities to fight for their rights and inclusion, creating awareness of how to address their challenges and how to embrace development activities and deliver themselves from the yokes of poverty including …

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Submission for #WhatWENeed 2023 by Puneet Singh Singhal, ssstart.

Author’s bio My name is Puneet Singh Singhal (he/him) from New Delhi, India. I am a person with dyslexia, dyspraxia and stammering. I see my life as the intersection of poverty, domestic violence, and multiple non-visible disabilities. I am a disability activist advocating for a more inclusive and accessible society for people with different, distinct, …

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CIC K WhatWENeed Collection 2022

Prepared by Njoroge Samuel, Fellow-TCI Global, Director, CIC-K

Championing inclusive communities in Kenya was once an idea that was mooted by Elizabeth Ombati (Chairperson) and Njoroge Samuel(director)in April 2022 during a Strategic Planning meeting by TCI Global in Bangkok Thailand. Under the TCI Fellowship program, CIC has transited into a national movement advocating for the rights of persons with psychosocial and neurodiverse disabilities. …

CIC K WhatWENeed Collection 2022

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Self-Advocating for Rights, One Poem at a Time:

Experiences Of Archiving Luke Taveta’s Poems By Psychiatric Survivors’ Association With The Help Of TCI DPO Support Grant

TCI’s story of meeting and working with Luke TCI team met the Late Mr. Luke Taveta during a visit to Fiji Islands, in February 2020 and exchanged with the Psychiatric Survivors Association of Fiji (PSA, Fiji). Started in 2004, from the life experiences of Luke, PSA is 18 years old and is among the oldest …

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