November is National Disability Rights Awareness Month. This year, 2014, the month will be celebrated under the theme “Celebrating 20 years of the rights of persons with disabilities in our democracy.” The year has been declared by Minister of Social Development, Bathabile Dlamini, as the year for people with disabilities. As such, Project Mikondzo – the Department’s service delivery improvement programme aimed at responding quicker, more effectively and innovatively to social challenges in the country – will especially be directed at the course of people with disabilities in November. The Department of Social Development will use this year’s month-long campaign to speak to South Africans about the many challenges facing people with disabilities in their daily lives. During November, the Department of Social Development will ask all South Africans to make a change in their areas of influence – be it in homes, churches, shops, restaurants, businesses, at the workplace, public service points, etc. – to accommodate people with disabilities in order to affirm their status as equal members of society.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:34:48 +0000
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