Community members gathered at a Jan Sunwai (public hearing) in Bihar, India. Orange-tinted photograph showing villagers facing a stage, representing grassroots disability rights advocacy.

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About This Portal

Q: What is this platform?
A: A collaborative, community-driven, crowd-sourced content platform for grassroots disability initiatives. Practitioners can join as authors and share content in any format. NOT an NGO funded project.

Q: Are there guidelines?
A: No editorial control. Once approved as an author, you post according to your freedom of thought.

Q: Who are the readers?
A: The community which is the target for becoming authors is the same community that is the target for readers. We are writing for ourselves. Nothing is too micro, too small to share.

Write in any language — English, Hindi, Tamil, Swahili, Chichewa, Kinyarwanda, Luganda, Shona, French, Portuguese, or any other.

Source: Full conversation about the portal and way forward


Regions Represented

East Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania
Southern Africa: Malawi, Zimbabwe
South Asia: India (Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Telangana), Bangladesh


Voices from the Field

Practitioners who have shared their stories. See all contributors →


Deepak Kumar — VAM, Bihar (India)
Sharon Aluoch — Disability Advocate (Kenya)
Varadan Bhoopathy — D3M, Tamil Nadu (India)
Vallent Rachel Vallent Rachel — Geno Epilepsy Center (Kenya)
Aishwarya Pillai Aishwarya Pillai — Blind Filmmaker (India)
Chantal Kanyabutembo Chantal Kanyabutembo — GECO Rwanda
Preethi Srinivasan Preethi Srinivasan — Disability Activist (India)
Msenga Mulungu — Sandi Thandiza (Malawi)
Ojijo Mbai Odhiambo Ojijo Mbai Odhiambo — Epilepsy Advocate (Kenya)
Aubrey Chiumia Aubrey Chiumia — Epilepsy Warrior (Malawi)
Pamela Chipeka Pamela Chipeka — Mother Advocate (Malawi)

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