Tired of going from one place to another in a slow-moving wheelchair? Let a motorized one developed locally by a group of persons with disabilities get you to your destination faster and in style.
The Marikina government is setting up a help desk and an office exclusively for the benefit of persons with disabilities (PWDs) living in the city in an attempt to reach out to these often-overlooked members of society.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has unanimously approved an ordinance that bans discrimination against members of the third sex, minority groups and differently abled persons.
The blind, the deaf and other persons with disabilities (PWDs) will no longer have to worry about being marginalized under the justice system, thanks to “PWD-friendly public attorneys.”
Less than half (43 percent) of persons with disabilities (PWDs) who voted in the May 2010 elections received assistance during voting, according to a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).
PERSONS with disabilities in Mandaue City will enjoy 100 percent increase in the cash assistance from City Hall.
The Department of Health-National Capital Region on Thursday said it would train healthcare providers on basic sign language to help them deal with and care for persons with disabilities (PWD), particularly those with speaking and hearing impediments.
President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday said the government has made it a point to ensure persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the country would be treated right, as he underscored the need to consider their disabilities as just being an “incidental” thing.
President Aquino said on Tuesday that the government has made it a point to ensure persons with disabilities in the country would be treated right, as he underscored the need to consider their disabilities as just being an “incidental” thing.
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) want their independence, too. In an inspiring show of force at the Quezon City Memorial Circle early Saturday morning, hundreds of PWDs and more than a dozen PWD support groups held the first Freedom Walk, an awareness campaign and fundraising activity in time for Independence Day today. “This has symbolic significance. [...]
