Disability Support Group Meeting #6
July 10, 2008 – 3:37 pmTitle: Disability Support Group Meeting #6
Location: Ghiyasuddin School
Description: 6th Meeting to finalize a name for our Association
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 2008-07-14
Disability Support Group Meeting #5
July 6, 2008 – 1:19 pmTitle: 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
July 4, 2008 – 5:06 amAlthough 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 parents who wanted the time to change to 8:30pm.
Which was followed by a chat about the terms we used on disability…
Why .siph.net?
July 4, 2008 – 4:20 amA 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 easiest way for us to do online publishing is Wordpress. Like blogger (mvdisability.blogspot.com) addresses, wordpress too gives away free service similar to blogger which is “mvdisability.wordpress.com” BUT it has disadvantages as with any free service. We cannot use the plugins! Which I think is very important to run a this blog.
So, I’ve hosted it in one of my own domains which helps a lot in achieving this goal. Features like “Calendar”, “Guestbook”, “Polls” and even Printer friendly layout is currently achieved using “plugins” feature in Wordpress. I hope this answers the question of why it is on “.siph.net”
Disability Support Group Meeting #4
July 1, 2008 – 12:34 pmTitle: Disability Support Group Meeting #4
Location: Seminar room in SHE Building, Maafanu
Description: Fourth support group meeting.
Start Time: 20:15
Date: 2008-07-03
End Time: 22:00
Tentative agenda: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddqt2cm5_11njv975hj
This announcement was first published on 27th June 2008 and new one above has some updates. To see the old one…
News on Inauguration of Sign Language classes
June 29, 2008 – 8:01 amTitle: News on Inauguration of Sign Language classes
Location: TVM
Description: News on Inauguration of Sign Language classes will be aired on TVM 8:pm news tonight
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2008-06-29
Group aim and Objectives published
June 28, 2008 – 11:17 amI’ve published and sent invitations to collaborate the Group Aim and Objectives file for us to update. I’ve already sent you all the link but here it is again for your info. http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddqt2cm5_10hrkhskd6
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“My Proposed;
Group Aim
To support persons/families who have children with special needs.
Objectives
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To deal with disability issues in Maldives
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To work as a group in confronting government authorities regarding the ratification of the Convention of Rights for Persons with Disability
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To hold a monthly* meetings & evening social events.
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To bring carers/parents/PwD’s together to share experiences and reduce isolation.
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To have a contact list enabling members to support each other in-between meetings.
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To expand everyone’s knowledge of local and national services.
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To provide activities during school holidays.*
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Develop personal skills of carers/parents/PwD’s.
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Develop links with other parents support groups within islands and surrounding islands.
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Maintain safe environment for our children. Help relevant authorities put a Child Protection Plan in place.*(Why: Often CwD’s get abused and neglected so having a Child protection plan is extremely important.)
*We need to discuss these”
Training sessions with Mingyu
June 26, 2008 – 11:17 amTitle: Training sessions with Mingyu
Description: Training sessions by Ming Yu on Facilitation
Start Date: 2008-06-30
Start Time: 17:00
End Date: 2008-07-01
End Time: 06:00
Informal Meeting with Mingyu
June 23, 2008 – 10:28 amTitle: Informal Meeting with Mingyu
Location: Youth Health Café
Description: To Talk about whats been happening in the group so far and how she can help the group
Start Time: 21:00
Date: 2008-06-25
Questions to Min. Information re: CRPD
June 21, 2008 – 3:09 pmDear Minister Nasheed;
Now that Maldives have signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Maldives too agrees to do things to make everyone else aware that disabled people have the same rights as everyone else and to show them what disabled people can do.
In the CRPD convention, Article 8, on awareness says the countries should do this by;
They should do this by:
- Having campaigns to change the way some people think about disabled people’s lives.
- Showing everyone what jobs disabled people can do.
- Teaching all children about equal rights for disabled people.
- Getting the media to show disabled people properly.
- Supporting more disability awareness work.
I’d like to ask you what your Minisitry is planning/doing to do to help the government ratify the CRPD? I would also like to know if there are any revisions/additions relating to CRPD on the reform process that is being done by the Ministry.
A copy of this question is posted on MVdisAbilty blog with links for further discussion and updates.
M.Yasiph
yasiph@gmail.com
+(960)7776688
Yasiph is father of a child with disabilities(Yafaau), President of CARE Parents’ Forum and he’s actively involved in forming a disability support group and is a strong supporter of RatifyNOW.org
This is a question sent to Min. of Information’s website, Hyphen blog and Minister Nasheed’s Blog via its feedback page in an effort to review CRPD status and let the relevant authorities know that there are concerned individuals about CRPD and tht it is not just another Convention that Maldives have signed and kept archived.