Training and promotion project for women with disabilities in Central America
With the participation of organizations of persons with disabilities in Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, a training and promotion project on the rights of women with disabilities is being developed in Central America.
This main objective of this ongoing initiative is: "the inclusion of women with disabilities into society. Most of these women have been victims and subjected to marginalization and forced to live in poverty. There is a double discrimination against them, as women and as women with disabilities."
From May 6-24, 14 persons with disabilities from Central American organizations of persons with disabilities participated in the initial stage of the project, held in Managua, Nicaragua. The organizers told us: "This training process was very intensive and lasted three weeks." The purpose of this activity was to help the participating organizations to develop their own training seminars. Each organization will organize three seminars. It is estimated that these seminars will directly benefit about 300 women with disabilities from Central America.
The organizations participating in this joint project are the Nicaraguan Association of Wheelchair Sports (Asociación Nicaragüense de Deportes Sobre Silla de Ruedas ANDSR), Association of Women with Disabilities (Asociación de Mujeres con Discapacidad "Las Golondrinas" de León, Nicaragua), the Nicaraguan Foundation of Women with Disabilities (Fundación Nicaraguense de Mujeres con Discapacidad FUNIMD), the Guatemalan Association of Physically Impaired (Asociación Guatemalteca de Limitado Físico), the Ecological Center of Appropriate Technology of El Salvador (Centro Ecológico Salvadoreño de Tecnología Apropiada, CESTA), and the Association of Persons with Physical Disabilities of Honduras (Asociación de Limitados Físicos de Honduras (ALFIH).
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