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June 30, 2005
Exposition about Independent Living
Dear Friends,
I was invited to make an exposition about Independent Living in the Mayor University. It was a very good opportunity.
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June 27, 2005
Inception Report Presentation
On Saturday, 26 June, Inception Report Presentation on"Vocational Rehabilitation Course" was held and the reports on the current situation of persons with disabilities at respective working sites and countries were presented by all participants of the training course.
Mr. Asahi was in the chair and Mr. Ogawa and Mr. Terashima attended as the representatives of the planning committee members. Three from JICA, six from JSRPD and Mr. Hiroshi Ueno, a course leader of "Leaders of Persons with Disabilities" attended the presentation. Many questions were raised and it became a good opportunity for all participants to exchange the opinions and information in the field of employmet of disabilities.
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June 21, 2005
We have started weeding the plot to commence the poultry and pig rearing project.
Dear Friends,
We write to remind you about our request.
It is not good for us .Kindly help us.
We still want to do the poultry project.We are counting on your help.
Peace be unto you all.
Michael K. Ocran.
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June 17, 2005
The training course held in Algarrobo, Chile - Carlos Kaiser
Dear friends,
Disability issues are getting better in my country.
The Municipal Office of PwD Affairs deals with every service rendered by the Municipality, but addapting them to facilitate full social inclusion of PwD in society.
These pictures are the training course held in Algarrobo. It was designed to give grass root organizations tool for growing and found raising.
We work on grass root level, community based activities are carried on. we strongly believe in our people.
Carlos
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June 16, 2005
Dear JICA
We are very happy that our JICA Web site is going to start on the 28th of March
and hopelly we can get more information about JICA and the program that JICA have for this year.
We wonder is there any JICA program that we can join? One of my staff like to learn more about computer especially the technical computer and how to make a good website, can JICA help us?
Thank you very much, we looking forward to having massege from JICA
Best regards,
InterAksi
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June 15, 2005
30th Anniversary YMCA International Deaf Youth Camp - Special Events
30TH ANNIVERSARY YMCA INTERNATIONAL DEAF YOUTH CAMP
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YMCA International Deaf Youth Camp (HH Camp) is a biennial camp for Deaf young people between the age of 16-35 years. This year we are honoured to be given to host the HH Camp. We hosted this camp in year 1983, 1990 and 2000.
This uniques camp is organised and managed by our Malaysian Deaf Leaders with support fron the YMCA of Kuala Lumpur and Penang. HH Camp to be held at Kuala Lumpur, Cameron Highlands and Penang from 29 July to 5 August 2005.
Theme of this camp is "BE ONE". More than 160 young people will come from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia.
We are pleased to inform you that we will hosting two special events in conjuction with this camp.
1) HH Camp Sports Carnival: "Sports for All"
Date: 31 July 2005 (Sunday)
Time: 8.00am~1.00pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur YMCA
Fee: RM 5 per entrance (include
Games: Competitive (Fustal*, 3 on 3 Basketball, Telematch & Tug-of-War)
Non-competitive (Board games, Malaysian Traditional Games, Volleyball, Aerobic, etc)
Open to All
2) HH Camp Opening Dinner
Date: 31 July 2005 (Sunday)
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Holiday Villa, Subang
Ticket: RM1,000 / RM 800* per table
Attire: International Costume
Come and participate to meet with International Deaf participant from various countries. If you have any enquiries, don't hestitate contact me as the below. You may visit www.ymcakl.com/hhcamp for more details.
HURRY!! DON'T MISS THIS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY!
*Please foward this to your friends. Thank you.
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Seminar on self help activities and support for psychiatric disability - T.Wayama (JSRPD)
Dear All
I attended a seminar on self help activities and support for psychiatric disability on June 11.
There were three speakers from California, USA. Two of them have psychiatric disability and the other is former San Francisco city officer. It was really interesting to hear their actual involvement on activities of/for persons with psychiatric disabilities such as advocacy, peer counselling, independent living support, and others. Peer counsellor is officially recognized in 11 states in the USA, whereas none of such in Japan so far.
Wayama
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June 10, 2005
Accessible Cruises, Fair Housing, and the Americans With Disabilities Act by Scott Rains
The following article was posted today in the "Travel & Disability" Section of Suite101.com.
Accessible Cruises, Fair Housing, and the Americans With Disabilities Act
by Scott Rains , srains@oco.net
Online version: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/18423/116434
A single strand of hair from a horse’s tail is almost invisible – like a piece of fishing line – but it’s quite strong. Birds and businesses ignore this fact to their peril.
My grandfather, a spry Goral from the mountains of Orava in Slovakia, taught me how he used to catch birds for pets as a boy back home. He would find horsetail hair, attach one end of a strand to a board, tie a noose-like knot in the other end, set the board on the ground, and bait it with birdseed. Without fail, birds would tangle their feet or snare their heads through the fragile-looking “loopholes.”
I never tried the technique myself. Instead the image of greedy birds fluttering in desperation stuck with me as a sort of moral lesson on taking shortcuts and succumbing to the temptation of loopholes.
This week two legal cases in the United States strengthened the movement toward Inclusive Tourism and Inclusive Destination Development. Both snared businesses who might have done better for their investors had they paid closer attention to the intent – rather than the apparent
loopholes - in the the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Inclusion may appear to be a fragile, slender thread but it is the cost of doing business in the USA.
On Monday June 6, 2005 the US Supreme Court determined that the Americans with Disability Act protects passengers with disabilities even on ships flagged to foreign ports when they operate in the US. This case, “Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line, 03-1388,” was discussed in the previous “Travel & Disability” section article, “Manifest Accessibility” (http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/18423/114545)
The majority opinion, written by Justice Kennedy explains,
Large numbers of disabled individuals, many of whom have mobility impairments that make other kinds of vacation travel difficult, take advantage of these cruises, or would like to. To hold there is no Title III protection for disabled persons who seek to use the amenities of foreign cruise ships would be a harsh and unexpected interpretation of a statute designed to provide board protection for the disabled.
Notice that even the court decision recognizes the preference for cruising as a travel product by consumers with disabilities. As some cruise lines recognize this and adopt Universal Design principles to satisfy their customers, it will become all the more difficult for other lines to watch their market share fall away to their competitors who do not practice discrimination. Universal Design will trump notions of ship design that have long been uncritically accepted as essential to
seafaring and seaworthiness.
One need not be a Disabilities Study scholar, although a little knowledge of the field could avert some major miscalculations in the travel industry, to understand that when people with disabilities have historically been systematically excluded from a market sector or industry, a cultural arena, scientific or engineering question the disability community’s pent-up creativity and desire to contribute socially inevitably leaves the temporarily able bodied gatekeepers of social participation reeling in shock and awe at what remained invisible to them behind their handicap of prejudice. The Court’s decision is a gift to the industry if it jolts that industry awake to the market it has been overlooking.
In some respects, the apparent pro-business stance of some dissenting activist justices does the industry a disservice. By preemptively determining that the ADA’s escape clause – that a modification be “readily achievable” – has been met simply by the nature of seagoing vessels and conceding – without examining specifics or challenging the industry to application of state-of-the-art solutions – that retrofitting and design changes are beyond the reach of the law, the Court lulls unsuspecting industry decision makers into a false sense of security. As the statement at www.Wheelmeon.org released by Goldstein & Howe, PC, explains:
The issue then becomes: To what extent does the ADA apply? Here, the Court is further divided. The controlling opinion of three Justices – Kennedy for a plurality, joined by Stevens and Souter – holds that Title III applies except in all likelihood to the extent the statute would otherwise require “permanent,” “significant,” “structural” changes to the “basic ship design and construction.” That opinion is controlling because it is the narrowest holding: Justice Thomas would not apply the statute to require any structural changes and, as noted, the three Justices dissenting in full would not apply the statute at all. By contrast, two concurring Justices – Justice Ginsburg, joined by Justice Breyer – would hold that Title III applies except to the extent that the
statute imposes requirements that conflict with treaty obligations.
In the face of such a pusillanimous decision it might have been easier for some to follow the course of “loopholes-as-usual” if it were not for a major settlement this week involving The Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act ( http://www.rollingrains.com/archives/000536.html ).
The Equal Rights Center (ERC), the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and the United Spinal Association along with their counsel, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld, & Toll, PLLC and the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs announced today [June 8, 2005] what is by far the largest settlement of a lawsuit challenging defects in the design and construction of multi-family housing under the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The settlement requires the survey of 71 apartment complexes developed by Archstone-Smith Trust and located in 16 states around the country, which contain approximately 36,000 apartment units, about 12,000 of which are covered by the settlement, and to retrofit features of the complexes, at Archstone’s expense, that operated as barriers to the full use and enjoyment of these facilities by people with disabilities. Archstone-Smith Trust is the seventh largest developer of apartment complexes in the United States. Although surveys of the properties have not concluded, the cost of remediation is estimated to exceed $20 million. Archstone will also pay $1.4 million in damages and attorneys fees and litigation expenses.
A person with a disability always runs the risk of being discounted for schauenfreude (translation: "taking pleasure in another's misfortune") when taking a strong self-advocacy position in times like these. Don’t misunderstand. Think of this week’s good news as a bell tolling
insistently on a buoy bobbing just seaward of a cruise industry naufragio.(translation: "shipwreck") What was true of the ancient Portuguese mariners is also true for those of us with disabilities who
share their passion:
Navegar é preciso. (translation: "Sailing is a necessity.")
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The Rolling Rains Report
http://www.RollingRains.com
RollingrRainsNews-subscribe@topica.com
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June 09, 2005
The first planning committee meeting
The first planning committee meeting for the training course of "Leaders of Persons with Disabilities"was held on April 22 and the second one on May 31, 2005.
Since this is the twentieth training course we, eight committee members, JICA and JSRPD staff see this year as a turning point and feel the needs to make the course something new and a little different after reviewing the history of this training course. Through two meetings we focused to discuss on course outcome and output and Inception Report, which was formally called "Country Report." Up until last year, ex-participants were required to submit "Country Report", however all applicants from this year are obliged to send in "Inception Report." instead. Inception report contains not only basic information on the country but also information on the backgrounds and organization of applicants. This aims to promote mutual understanding among participants and relevant people in Japan. "General Information" for the said course is going to be completed and presented on this website by the end of June.
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June 03, 2005
CURSO ADMINISTRACION Y GESTIÓN DE INSTITUCIONES SIN FINES DE LUCRO
(COURSE ADMINISTRATION And MANAGEMENT OF INSTITUTIONS WITHOUT PROFIT)
- Carlos Kaiser
Queridos amigos:
(Dear friends:)
Los invitamos a participar del Curso de Administración y Gestión de Instituciones sin fines de Lucro. Este curso nos permitirá mejorar la autosustentabilidad de nuestras organizaciones.
(We invited to participate them in the Course of Administration and Management of Institutions without aims of Profit. This course will allow us to improve the autosustentabilidad of our organizations.)
Número de mínimo de participantes por institución: 2
(Number of minimum of participants by institution:2)
Costo de inscripción por persona: 5 mil pesos.
(Cost of inscription by person: 5 thousand pesos.)
Duración: 2 días.
(Duration: 2 days.)
Fecha: 9 y 10 de Junio.
(Date: 9 and 10 of June.)
Lugar: Caleta de pescadores de Algarrobo, Avenida Carlos Alessandri nº 2523
(Place: Creek of fishermen of Carob tree, Avenue Carlos Alessandri nº 2523)
Inscripciones: Llamar al 200 144, persona de contacto señorita Sandra Paola Marín.
Correo electrónico omundi@municipalidadalgarrobo.cl
( Inscriptions: To call to 200 144, person of contact Miss Sandra Paola Marín.
E-mail omundi@municipalidadalgarrobo.cl )
*La inscripción no cubre almuerzos.
(* The inscription does not cover lunches.)
PROGRAMA CURSO ALGARROBO:
ADMINISTRACION Y GESTIÓN DE INSTITUCIONES SIN FINES DE LUCRO
(PROGRAM COURSE CAROB TREE:
ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF INSTITUTIONS WITHOUT PROFIT AIMS
)
(There is the English text below the Spanish one)
Fecha : 9 y 10 de Junio ( Fecha a Confirmar)
Hora : Jueves de 9:00 a 19:00
Viernes de 9:00 a 17:00
Día 1 Jueves 9 de Junio
9:00 – 10:00 Bienvenida y Presentación:
¿Qué es el Tercer sector ?
¿Qué es una empresa social?
¿Cómo logro tener procedimientos y técnicas de una empresa comercial pero con fines sociales ?
Expositor: Sr. Juan Francisco Lecaros, Presidente Corporación Simón de Cirene.
10:00 – 11:30 ¿Cómo es mi situación actual? Contestemos las Preguntas Fundamentales. Conceptos estratégicos
Visión – Misión – Servicios = Coherencia en la Organización
Expositor: Sr. Juan Francisco Lecaros.
11:30 – 12:00 Café
12:00 - 13:30 Reflexión sobre la importancia de la Evaluación
¿Sabemos cómo CONDUCIR nuestra organización? ¿Soy LIDER ?
¿Aplico alguna técnica?
Planificación estratégica: la herramienta certera para una buena gestión y el logro de metas.
Expositor: Sr. Juan Francisco Lecaros.
13:30 - 15:00 Almuerzo
15:00 - 17:00 Herramientas de Conducción.
¿Cuales son las herramientas que nos permiten Planificar, organizar, dirigir y controlar?
Sra. Catalina Viel, Ingeniero Comercial UGM consultora Corporación Simón de Cirene
17:00 - 17:15 Café
17:15 - 18:15 Estructura Organizacional de la Empresa Social.
Roles del Directorio, la Gerencia y el Alma Mater.
Las tres áreas básicas: Administración, Servicios y Recursos.
Expositor: Sra. M. Angélica Sepulveda, Ingeniero Comercial PUC, Consultora Corporación Simón de Cirene.
18:15 - 19:00 Voluntariado
Día 2 Viernes 9 de Junio
9:00 - 10:30 Area de Recursos
Financiamiento
Expositor: Angélica Sepúlveda, Ingeniero Comercial PUC, Consultora Simón de Cirene
10:30 - 11:00 Elaboración de Proyectos
Expositor: Catalina Viel, Ingeniero Comercial UGM, Consultora Simón de Cirene
11:00 – 11:15 Café
11:15 – 12:30 Trabajo Práctico Elaboración de Proyectos
12:30 – 13:30 Area de Recursos: El Marketing.
Herramientas de Marketing, Campañas.
Expositor:. Catalina Viel, Ingeniero Comercial UGM, Consultora Simón de Cirene
13:30 – 15:00 Almuerzo – Descanso.
15:00 – 16:00 Area de Servicios
Expositor: Angélica Sepúlveda, Ingeniero Comercial PUC, Consultora Simón de Cirene
16:00 – 17:00 Síntesis, Comentarios Finales, Entrega de Diplomas y Cierre.
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PROGRAM COURSE CAROB TREE:
ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF INSTITUTIONS WITHOUT PROFIT AIMS
Date : 9 and 10 of June (Date To confirm)
Hour : Thursday of 9:00 to 19:00
Friday from 9:00 to 17:00
Day 1 Thursday 9 of June
9:00 – 10:00 Welcome and Presentation:
What is the Third sector?
What is a social company?
How profit to have procedures and techniques of a commercial company but with social aims ?
Exhibitor: Mr. Juan Francisco Lecaros, President Corporation Simón de Cirene.
10:00 – 11:30 How are my present situation? Let us answer Preguntas Fundamental. Strategic concepts
Visión – Mission - Services = Coherence in the Organization
Exhibitor: Mr. Juan Francisco Lecaros.
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee
12:00 - 13:30 Reflection on the importance of the Evaluation
We know how TO LEAD our organization? I am LIDER?
I apply some technique?
Strategic planning: the accurate tool for a good management and the profit of goals.
Exhibitor: Mr. Juan Francisco Lecaros.
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 17:00 Tools of Conduction.
As they are the tools that allow us To plan, to organize, to direct and to control?
Mrs. Catherine Viel, consulting Commercial Engineer UGM Corporation Simón de Cirene
17:00 - 17:15 Coffee
17:15 - 18:15 Organizacional Structure of the Social Company.
Rolls of the Directory, the Management and the Mater Soul.
The three basic areas: Administration, Services and Resources..
Exhibitor: Mrs. M. Angelica Sepulveda, Commercial Engineer PUC, Consultant Corporation Simón de Cirene.
18:15 - 19:00 Voluntary military service
Day 2 Fridays 9 of June
9:00 - 10:30 Area of Resources Financing
Exhibitor: Angelica Sepúlveda, Commercial Engineer PUC, Consultant Simón de Cirene
10:30 - 11:00 Elaboration of Projects
Expository: Catherine Viel, Commercial Engineer UGM, Consultant Simón de Cirene
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee
11:15 – 12:30 Practical Work Elaboration of Projects
12:30 – 13:30 Area of Resources: Marketing.
Tools of Marketing, Campaigns..
Expositor:. Catalina Viel, Ingeniero Comercial UGM, Consultora Simón de Cirene
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch - Rest.
15:00 – 16:00 Area of Services
Exhibitor:. Angelica Sepúlveda, Commercial Engineer PUC, Consultant Simón de Cirene
16:00 – 17:00 Synthesis, Final Commentaries, Diploma Delivery and Closes.
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June 02, 2005
The achievements after the training course - Ram Prasad Dhungana
In 1997, I got an opportunity to attended Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Promotion for Persons with Disabilities training organized by JSRPD, in the recommendation of Jica Nepal.
After attending the group-training course on Vocational Rehabilitation and Workshop management of PWDs in Japan, we (trainees) developed an action plan to implement the training skill in respective countries. I would like to mention the key achievements (outcomes) after I came back to Nepal:
Established National Rehabilitation Center of the Disabled (NRCD) and elected as a president, and I utilized my training skill through this organization. I worked in rehabilitation sector in different districts. They are as follow:
•1000 PWD were trained on income generation training in Katmandu valley. The trained PWDs have been leading the dignified life in the society through the income generation activities. We also established first cooperative of the disable people in Nepal working specific to disable people in Katmandu. The cooperative has been running by the trained PWDs themselves.
•As well, 50 PWDs were trained on Income Generating activities in Kaski district. The trained PWDs have been taking advantage from the training for their income that supports them for their better life. We also established a Rehabilitation Resource Center in Kaski. From this Center PWDs has been taking income generation activities smoothly.
•150 PWDs were rehabilitated in Nawalparasi through Income generation activities. The trained PWDs have been using the training skills for their income generation activities and have been leading independent life. We have set up our own Resource Center Office in Nawalparasi.
•50 PWDs, 1oo PWDs, 25 PWDs, and 100 PWDs has been rehabilitated in Kapilvastu, Bardia, Nuwakot, Kusma (Parpat) and Rupandehi respectively. We also established Rehabilitation Resources Center to provide training to new trainees (PWDs)
I have been working as Secretary General in National Federation of the Disable-Nepal since 2004.
Ram Prasad Dhungana
Rehabilitation course 1997
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June 01, 2005
Volunteer Training
i'm glad that we can have a nice web-site to communitcate with each other.
in this few month i'm busy in giving the voulnteer training which open to the public.i giving talk & teach the skill for the volunteer how to comminicate & help the disabled.those volunteer are coming around the kuala lumpur area, we hope that though this training can make some awereness to the public & the volunteer can know well about the disabled.
here i attach some training photo 4 u, this year we have about 40 volunteer to join in this training.we are glad that this year have such great number of volunteer to join this training.
from grace
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