Thursday, 19 December 2019
Dr. Hoang-Yen Thi VoDisability Research and Capacity DevelopmentVietnam Dr. Hoang-Yen Thi Vo is a tireless activist for the rights of people with disabilities in Vietnam, a social worker and disability educator for colleges, GOs, and NGOs with projects or programs on disability, and consultant for several disability-related community programs. In 2005, Yen founded the Disability Research and Capacity...
Friday, 06 December 2019
The Viscardi Center announced ten recipients of the 2019 Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards on December 5 at a ceremony at the Mutual of America building in New York City. First bestowed in 2013, the awards honor leaders in the global disability community who, through the example of their professional accomplishments and advocacy efforts, are shifting societal perceptions and significantly...
Tuesday, 03 December 2019
Học bổng kỹ thuật viên lập trình FUNIX
ĐĂNG KÝ NHẬN 40 SUẤT HỌC BỔNG TRƯỜNG MÂY ĐĂNG KÝ LIỀN TAY: Học online chủ động, học cùng chuyên gia và đảm bảo chất lượng với cam kết việc làm sau khi hoàn thành chứng chỉ tương đương Theo Thỏa thuận hợp tác về đào tạo nguồn nh...
Monday, 21 October 2019
Vo Thi Hoang Yen Vietnam (2001 cohort) Master’s in Community Development University of Kansas, U.S.
Vo Thi Hoang Yen was diagnosed with polio at the age of three while living in a remote rice farming village in Vietnam. Despite earning two bachelor’s degrees, Vo felt “helpless” in her search for a job because of the stigmatization and discrimination that she faced due to her disability. “I wanted to change the perception that people with disabilities were incapable, helpless...
Saturday, 24 August 2019
Expert on how Vietnam can be more disabled-friendly
Vo Thi Hoang Yen sits in a room talking to volunteers of Center for Disability Research & Capacity Development. Photo: Tu Trung / Tuoi Tre A physically challenged Vietnamese woman has pointed out the difficulties people with disabilities have to face in the country, which she believes lacks a supportive environment for the disabled. Vo Thi Hoang Yen, 53, is a native in Nhon Trach District in Dong...
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Catalysing leaders in the fight against social injustice
In Vietnam, thousands of people with disabilities who might once have been invisible in their communities are going to work and to school. In Ghana, where domestic violence has historically been seen as both a stigma and a private matter to be handled by family, gender-based violence courts are making it easier for women and children to seek legal recourse through the judicial system. And...
Thursday, 11 July 2019
High school football coach with no arms or legs delivers uplifting speech at ESPYs
Rob Mendez loves football and refused to let anything get in the way of his dream of becoming a coach. Rob Mendez, a football coach at Prospect High School in Saratoga, California, accepts the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Getty Images Rob Mendez, a high school football coach who was born without arms or legs, delivered a speech that...