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

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

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#WhatWENeed 2022 Campaign

Submission by Living Association, Thailand (LAT)

Living Association Thailand (LAT): Living Association is a Thailand based organization of persons with psychosocial disabilities and their care givers and supporters. It offers support in recovery, skill development, promotion of opportunity to work and inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities in the community. The organization values the importance of wellbeing and being alive as

#WhatWENeed 2022 Campaign

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Introducing Carr Gomm

By Rebecca Robinson, International Collaborations Project Manager, Carr Gomm

In Scotland, UK, deinstitutionalization has been a policy objective, at least since the 1990s, when a ‘care in the community’ policy was introduced. It was within this context the charity Carr Gomm Scotland was established, in 1998, with the main aim of supporting people with disabilities who had been housed in institutions to live safely

Introducing Carr Gomm

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Liberation’s work

Liberation is a quite recently formed organisation, led by people with psychosocial disabilities. We operate at a grass roots level. Our aim is to promote full human rights for people with lived experience of mental distress/trauma. This is the term we often use in England for people with psychosocial disabilities.

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The Stronger Project Kenya (A Youth Led Community Based Organisation for Persons With Psychosocial Disabilities)

WHAT WE NEED SUBMISSION By: The Stronger Project Kenya (A Youth Led Community Based Organisation for Persons With Psychosocial Disabilities) Living independently and being included in the community is a fundamental human right concept that is applied to the context of disability. Persons with psychosocial disabilities are not exempt from this. For years, persons with

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