The Handicap International is an independent international solidarity organization established in 1982. The organization works in situations of poverty or exclusion, conflict and natural disasters. The association takes action and speaks out in order to meet their essential needs and improve their living conditions. It is committed to campaigning to ensure their dignity is preserved and their fundamental rights upheld.
Organization working towards defending and promoting access to fundamental rights for people with disabilities, the Handicap International works and campaigns in over 60 countries in order to restore the dignity of people with disabilities and giving them back a role in the community. The organization focuses on the right to health, education, employment, accessibility and safety of the people living with disability.
Areas of Intervention
- Provide relief and assistance to vulnerable populations, people with disabilities, displaced persons and refugees development work in the field promoting health, prevention, social and economic inclusion (access to education, professional training, employment, sport, culture and leisure activities)
- Campaign at national and international level to ensure people with disabilities taken into consideration in development projects and policies
- Handicap International also supports local disabled people’s organizations.
Focus Areas
- Emergency action
- Re-adaption
- Action against mines and cluster bombs
- Physical and mental health
- Insertion
- Rights and disability policies
Focus Countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma(Myanmar), Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, China, Colombia, Congo DR, Ivory Coast, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Viet Nam and the countries in the Middle East.
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