Ontario has been twinned with the Combined Disabilities Association, Jamaica. Exchanges have taken place between the partners to learn more about the barriers that disabled persons face in each country, and to share how they have confronted and removed attitudinal and physical barriers. CCD's disabled colleagues in the developing world have taught us that businesses owned and managed by disabled persons are profitable. Disabled Canadians have collected and shipped used wheelchairs, wheelchair parts, crutches and other aids to developing world colleagues.
Mobility is an important key to independence the world over.
CCD is sharing its solidarity work and what it has learned with other international development organizations and community groups, to make them aware of the concerns and aspirations of disabled persons in development. Produced with the assistance of the Public Participation Program, Canadian International Development Agency.