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11th Duskin Leadership Training in Japan: A program for Persons with Disabilities in the Asia and the Pacific

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Message from Ministry of Higher Education, Employment and Social Security We have received information regarding the training program referred to above. This 10 month training program, conducted in Japan, is targeted for Persons with Disabilities ONLY, and is sponsored by the Duskin AINOWA foundation (all expenses except pocket money are covered). PURPOSE: ...

ADD officially registered! FM Meeting #5

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Association for Disability and Development is officially registered at Ministry of Home Affairs. Founder member meeting is scheduled tomorrow evening at 5:00pm as usual in SeaHouse.

ADD members at HIH support group picnic

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Title: ADD members at HIH support group picnic Location: Hulhumale Description: ADD members who joined the Hand-in-Hand support group had planned to go on a picnic to Hulhumale. Start Time: 14:45 Date: 2008-10-11 End Time: 16:30 Update: 2008-10-11, 12:30pmĀ Cancelled due to weather

FM Meeting #1

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Title: Founder Members Meeting #1 Location: Sea House Description: Finalizing forms. Attended by: H.Nizam, Sidgee, Yasiph, Ameena, A.Nizam, Ifham and partly by Nelfa Decisions made: Signing of Founder member background check form. Agreed to constitution being checked by Murad(Lawyer) The lawyer fees were ~MRF200/- and 5 founder members contributed MRF40/- Start Time: 15:00 Date: 2008-08-19 End Time: 16:00

Sharing stories, building communities-People’s Foundation

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Title: Sharing stories, building communities Location: Recreation Hall, NNCB Community Service Centre, Alikilegefaanu Magu Description: DIGITAL STORYTELLING: An example of Arts and Culture for Civil Society Strengthening (ACCiSS) Start Time: 20:30 Date: 2008-08-10 End Time: 22:00 The invitation to Founder Members of ADD came from Ming Yu of People's Foundation to join them in learning how ...

Selecting Parents/caregivers for Hand-in-Hand Support Group

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Title: Selecting Parents/caregivers for Hand-in-Hand Support Group Location: Hand-in-Hand Description: Hand-in-Hand selection on Parents of CwD's of ADD. Start Time: 20:30 Date: 2008-08-08

Report on the Forum on Disability 29th July 2008

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

This is a report by CFPA of Min. of Gender and Family on the "Forum on Disability" held on 29th July 2008 in which I was invited as a Parent of a child with a disAbility. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Min. of Gender and Family ...

Disability Support Group Meeting #5

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Title: Disability Support Group Meeting #5 Location: Ghiyasuddin School Description: Fifth Meeting will be held at Giyaasuddhin School Start Time: 20:30 Date: 2008-07-10 End Time: 22:00

A Summary of last night’s meeting at SHE building

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Although more than 20 invitations by phone were confirmed, most of them were unable to show up at the meeting. But Sidgee's referral of 4 new parents were the inspiring start at the meeting. Here are some from my rough notes; The meeting started with the first concrete decision by many ...

Why .siph.net?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

A common question which arises when I mention about this blog but most of them do not ask. But not this commenter on our about page. Its good that he asked, now It will be better to write about it. Ok, here's why I chose ".siph.net" The simplest and the ...