International Day of People With Disabilities

2.1% of the total Indian

population are PWD

12.6 million are males

9.3 million are females.

Disabled People NEVER GIVE UP RESPECT

VIDEO

Since 1992

AIM

To encourage a better understanding of people affected by a disability, To make people more aware of the rights, dignity and welfare of disabled people

Raise awareness about the benefits of integrating disabled persons into every aspect of life, from economic, to political, to social and cultural.

To encourage a better understanding of people affected by a

disability

To make people more aware of the rights, dignity and welfare

of disabled people

Raise awareness about the benefits of integrating disabled

persons into every aspect of life, from economic, to political,

to social and cultural

THEME of 2016

“Achieving 17 Goals for the Future We Want”.

The recent adoption of the 17

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for

Sustainable Development is a set of seventeen

aspirational "Global Goals" with 169 targets between

them. ... The proposal contained 17 goals with 169

targets covering a broad range of sustainable

development issues

Contd…..

1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved

nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all

ages

4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and

promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and

girls

6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water

and sanitation for all

7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and clean

energy for all

8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic

growth, full and productive employment and decent work

for all

9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and

sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

10.Reduce inequality within and among countries

11.Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient

and sustainable

12.Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Contd…..

Contd…..

13.Take urgent action to combat climate change and its

impacts

14.Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and

marine resources for sustainable development

15.Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial

ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat

desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and

halt biodiversity loss

16.Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable

development, provide access to justice for all and build

effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all

levels

17.Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize

the global partnership for sustainable development

Some Extraordinary

People With Disabilities

Sudha Chandran

1964

Disability: Amputee

Acclaimed dancers of the Indian

Subcontinent.

Numerous awards

Performed all over the world

Marla Runyan

January 4, 1969

Disability: Blind

Three time national champion in the women’s 5000 meters

Four gold medals in the 1992 summer paralympics

‘No Finish Line: My Life As I See It’

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770-1827

Disability: Deaf

Greatest composer in history

Christy Brown

June 5, 1932 – September 7, 1981

Disability: Cerebral Palsy

Irish author, painter and poet

Stephen Hawking

8 January 1942

Disability: Motor Neuron disease or a variant of ALS (Amyotrophic

Lateral Sclerosis)

British theoretical physicist

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

A lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

Presidential Medal of Freedom

The highest civilian award in the United States

WE ARE THE SUPER HUMANS- YES I

CAN(VIDEO)

THANK YOU FOR UR PATIENT ATTENTION

PRESENTED BY

RAWOOFU NISHA. J

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

V.O.C. COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

JAI HIND