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Iraê Cardoso

Ashoka Fellow since Dec 1999

Brazil

AAPPE (Associacão dos Amigos e Pais de Pessoas Especiais)

Iraê Cardoso is leading an effort to have states in Brazil recognize the hearing impaired as a cultural and linguistic minority with the same rights as other minority groups.

Iraê Cardoso

Ashoka Fellow since Dec 1999

Brazil

AAPPE (Associacão dos Amigos e Pais de Pessoas Especiais)

Iraê Cardoso is leading an effort to have states in Brazil recognize the hearing impaired as a cultural and linguistic minority with the same rights as other minority groups.

In Memory of Orri Vigfusson, Who Saved the North Atlantic’s Salmon

The global Ashoka community deeply mourns the loss of Icelandic Fellow Orri Vigfússon, Chairman and Founder of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund. Elected in 2004, Orri successfully implemented an international effort to conserve and restore wild Atlantic Salmon. He proposed that citizen groups...

Ashoka fellows überzeugen beim Integrationswettbewerb "Ausgezeichnete Orte im Land der Ideen"

Gute Ideen verlangen eine große Offenheit ihrer Erfinder – gerade in solchen Zeiten, in denen die Offenheit ganzer Gesellschaften in Frage gestellt wird oder zunehmend unter Beschuss gerät. Unter dem Motto „Offen denken, damit sich Neues entfalten kann“ fand dieses Jahr zum zwölften Mal der...

UWC Red Cross Nordic

UWC Red Cross Nordic (UWC RCN) was founded in 1995 in Norway, and their mission is “to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future”. In this regard, the school adopted ‘deliberate diversity’ as their educational model and gave priority to create...

Sajida Rahman

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2018

Bangladesh

PFDA - Vocational Training Center

Danny is empowering the caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to define the future their children and families will have.

Podcast - JIB, une solution connectée pour personnes en situation de handicap moteur

Mardi 21 mai, Melchior Gormand (RCF) accueille dans son émission Tous Acteurs du Changement Thomas Groell, co-fondateur de JIB Smart Home, une solution connectée pour l'autonomie des personnes en situation de handicap moteur, afin de rendre leur logement plus accessible.

Saving gorillas by saving people: how Gladys Kalema transformed her teenage passion for animals into a radical social innovation

As a new graduate from veterinary school, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka invented her first job

"Basta tabù, anche noi disabili ab biamo diritto al sesso”

In Italia la sessualità dei disabili è ancora un tabù. Eppure in tutti i paesi europei più civili da tempo viene fornita assistenza dedicata e gli ausili vengono rimborsati dal SSN. Ne parlano Danilo Ragona e Max Ulivieri che da tempo si sono fatti portavoce e #changemaker sul tema. Buona lettura!

JP Maunes: putting accessibility and inclusion center stage in the Philippines

JP’s life’s work to change mindsets in Filipino society about disability inclusion started when he was a teenager, growing up in the central Visayas region of the Philippines.