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May 25, 2009
Disabled People's Development Organization-Myanmar
We are very happy to inform you that the 1st office of our Self-help organization called "Disabled People's Development Organization (D.P.D.O)" in Yangon will be able to open in coming week. The office address would be :
Disabled People's Development Organization (D.P.D.O)
Butar-yon Street, East Gyoe-gone Township,
Yangon, Myanmar.
It is a type of self-help organization of PWDs and established it in 2003 in Yangon by disabled persons who are former participants of APCD, Thailand and AAR-Japan (VTC) graduates in Yangon. The former name is “Raise up PWD’s Development Group (RPDG)” and changed it into “DPDO” in mid-2009. We did not have resident own office before. We made regular monthly meeting at AAR-VTC hall in Yangon. Due to effort of responsible EC members and unity of all members, we will be able to open the first resident office in Yangon in coming week. Now there are 120 disabled members in our organization and continuing the activities within our limitation resources and situation.
Organization Profile
Organization’s Name: Disabled People’s Development Organization (D.P.D.O)
The goal: To rise up the abilities and human resources of disabled persons by unity, then must be developed a society which has equal rights for all.
Motto: Towards Equal Society
Objectives:
・To empower each other, to have unity among us in order to build better spiritual value of disabled persons and to solve various facing problems by means of group activities
・To develop the independent living life-style of disabled persons by raising abilities and rights of us
・To reveal, solve and remove all of barriers that could be impeded inclusion of disabled people within society
・To obtain full participation in all of community sectors by accepting our competence
・To implement disability related actions, projects and other enterprises which are aimed to develop all disabled fields leaded by disabled persons ourselves.
・To cooperate with other organizations in order to develop educational, social, health and economic conditions of disabled persons
・To promote the leading role of self-help groups of disabled persons in Myanmar
We are doing the following small activities within our budget and resource limitation.
・Campaigns on development of SHG role and organizes and establishes new SHG in vicinity of Yangon and Delta Region
・Arranges group excursions to promote public awareness on disability issue
・Introduces on Social model of disability and responsible for peer counseling
・Makes some handicrafts and runs a hair cutting shop of group own for fund raising
・Shares education on nutrition in the community
・Refers and arranges on assistant devices for needed disabled persons
・Participate in social and sport activities
・Publishes Group Pamphlet, Group newsletters
・Sends some members to local and abroad capacity development training by the support of partner organizations
・Implements rehabilitatin programs for Nargis affected disabled by funding of some organizations
・Implements micro credit program for those group members who want to run their small business
・Supports information and takes into account the current problems to peer individuals and groups as much as possible
Best regards,
Nay Lin Soe (Secretary)
Disabled People's Development Organization (D.P.D.O)
Posted by jicafriends at May 25, 2009 03:36 PM