Summary
An extensive awareness campaign across the country targeting both people with disabilities and the general public in order to improve understanding and promote inclusion of people with disabilities.
What is the issue, problem, or challenge?
To support a local NGO promoting awareness of disabilities issues and rights. $1,000 will print the awareness poster designs in the local newspapers for 2 weeks to further promote the message of inclusion and rights for persons with disabilities.
How will this project solve this problem?
Organize competitions to develop posters that have positive messages about the inclusion of people with disabilities. The winning designs and slogans will be developed into a color poster and printed and distributed throughout Iraq.
Potential Long Term Impact
The project aims at improving understanding and promotion of inclusion of people with disabilities. The activity will raise the awareness among the participants and help to convey the message among community members.
Project Message
Many projects provide curative assistance to the disabled. This project will increase awareness about the basic rights of underrepresented people: the right to go to school, to work, to vote, etc.
- Anonymous, Project Leader
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $2,000
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding.
Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as
indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the
"Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $2,000
.
The original project funding goal was $2,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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