Tag Archives: Persons with Disabilities

[Featured Site] Project Kapasan

WHAT DOES KAPASAN MEAN? Our namesake is our point of view: “KA-denotes “partnership, being included as a part of” while the word PASAN emphasizes the act or process of carrying. Merged together the word ka-pasan means kasama sa pagpasan [….] the belief that building better communities is a collective effort of everyone-lahat kasama sa pagpasan.” From: Muego, P. (2018). Engaging

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[Event/Campaign] Caravan for Accessible Transpo -Philippine Deaf Resource Center

Sa mahal naming mga kasama, tagasuporta at kaibigan, *Taimtim kaming nakikiisa sa aming mga kapatid – Humihingi po kami na nasa sektor ng mga may kapansanan, ng inyong suporta sa aming balak na kilos sa Huwebes, 17 Hulyo, upang ipahayag ang aming mga hinaing ukol sa pag di pagtugon ng ating pamahalaan sa aming mga pangangailangan sa pampublikong sasakyan at

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[In the news] New board members of National Anti-Poverty Commission appointed – InterAksyon.com

New board members of National Anti-Poverty Commission appointed by Chichi Conde, InterAksyon.com January 22, 2012  President Benigno Aquino III has appointed a new set of board members of the National Anti-Poverty Commission. Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. said the new NAPC board members are as follows: Delfa Talaid, representing artisinal fisherfolk; Norisa Sabirin, representing children; Daniel Ang, representing cooperatives; Ponyong

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[Statement] Coalition of Persons with Disabilities on the move!

What was once a dream, is slowly blossoming into a reality.   What started in December 2010 is now a full blown Philippine Coalition on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) comprised of the largest national organizations and federations for Persons with Disabilities in the country.  The Coalition includes nine different disability constituencies:  visually-impaired, speech-impaired, deaf,

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