Save the Children roots for inclusion of children with disability
Mar 28, 2019
“There is a cycle of disability and poverty, with people with disability being among the poorest and people in poverty being at the greatest risk of acquiring a disability,” she says.
KAMPALA - The associate area director Save the Children Norway, Ina Boe has advocated for the inclusion of children with disability.
She says there are a number of approaches which involve the participation of both the society and the people with disability, themselves. They include medical approach, charity approach which are individual models, then the inclusive approach which is a social model.
Save the Children team and other partners attending the meeting
Boe adds that disability has to be viewed as the relationship between impairment and environmental barriers. "There is a cycle of disability and poverty, with people with disability being among the poorest and people in poverty being at the greatest risk of acquiring a disability," she says.
Boe was speaking on day two of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) five-year fund programme for child education, protection and rights, and disaster risk reduction in Uganda through Save the Children.
She informed the meeting taking place at Royal Suites Bugoloobi in Kampala that women and girls with disability, along with the elderly are the poorest and most marginalized.