Canadians with disabilities lack basic disability related supports to participate in community life including religious life.

Canadians with disabilities want jobs, access to education, the right to live where they choose.

Canadians with disabilities want the same opportunities and responsibilities as non disabled Canadians.*
*Source Council of Canadian with Disabilities

Accessiblechurch.ca encourages you to become supporters of the Dignity For All campaign. A Campaign for a poverty free Canada
You can show your support on the Dignity For All web site. http://www.dignityforall.ca/
First Nations and Disability Resources
32% of People with Aboriginal Heritage report having physical disabilities, twice the national rate.

International Development and Disability

Young Artists For Haiti - Wavin' Flag

Internationally Disabled people are typically among the very poorest, they experience poverty more intensely and have fewer opportunities to escape poverty than non-disabled people.

Disabled people are largely invisible, are ignored and excluded from mainstream development.   Disability cuts across all societies and groups. The poorest and most marginalized are at the greatest risk of disability. Within the poorest and most marginalized, disabled women, disabled ethnic minorities, disabled members of scheduled castes and tribes, and so on will be the most excluded.

International Development cannot be said to be working effectively to reduce poverty and tackle social exclusion unless it makes specific efforts to address disability issues.*

*Source Lessons from the Disability Knowledge and Research Programme (UK)

What Can you do Internationally? 

 

 

Accessible Church urges everyone to e-mail Bev Oda,  Minister of International Cooperation, and responsible for CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency  to include disability concerns in their programs. Oda.B@parl.gc.ca

Also we urge you to write and ask your favourite Non_Governmental Agency working overseas to do so as well.

What Does Your God Require of You?

 

 

 

 

CBM is an international Christian development organisation, committed to
improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest countries of the world.

Taking Action in Canada

Council of Canadians with Disabilities
Speaks for Canadian with Disability

Fighting Stigma and Discrimination in Society facing those with mental illness and addictions and suggestions for overcoming these barriers from the Kirby Report

The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) Alliance
The History behind the Accessibility movement in Ontario, and news about what is happening today.

Accessibility News
Ontario's Online Magazine of Issues for Accessibility.

The AODA Alliance
 An Ontario Disability Consumer Group working towards full and effective standards for accessibility.

The Happy Prince    

 Video and text of Oscar Wilde's Story of The Happy Prince who worked for Social Justice  and other Social Justice  Stories and Videos