SHORT COURSE on
Disability Inclusive Development Disability Studies programme: The University of Cape Town 18th, 19th an 20th June 2013 ........read more
THE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON CBR:(15th June to 9th August 2013) Organized by The Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation (CEDRES) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana and ENABLEMENT in The Netherlands......Read More
Post Graduate Diploma in Disability Studies at The University of Cape Town........read more
CBR Courses at Kyambogo University, Kampala - Uganda :- ........read more
FREE online CBR courses developed by the Medical Support Department of AIFO. ........read more
The COMBRA CBR Certification Course comprises of 13 weeks of participatory learning, 4 weeks of community practicum and 1 week of examinations......Read More
Background
CAN is an information & knowledge sharing network for Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) workers in Africa that was set up to support CBR initiatives through documentation of good practices. Through the efforts of a secretariat team in Uganda, with the support of an executive committee from 8 African countries, CAN facilitates sharing by organising conferences, writer’s workshops, encouraging formation of CBR National Associations, a website and publications that is produces. CAN information is accessible in most African countries and all over the world.
THE PETITION SUPPORTING THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION TREATY FOR THE BLIND RIGHT AND PRINT DISABLED:
The World Intellectual Property Organization is considering a treaty that would make more books available to blind and print-disabled people all over the world by promoting an exception to copyright law allowing books to be produced in special formats like Braille and to be shared across international borders...........Read More
Uganda National Action of Physical Disability (UNAPD) NEWSLETTER, 2nd Issue of 2013:
In this issue read about Speaker Kadaga and the petition in Parliament on disability from road accidents, the teacher with disability who carries his scholastic materials by his mouth, the Jubilation and excitement as UNAPD holds a PWDs sports tournament and Chairperson Arthur Blick’s take on cerebral palsy and acquired brain injury.........Download Newsletter
GHANA GOVERNMENT ABANDONS BOLGATANGA REHABILITATION TRAINING CENTRE:
Since 2011, when the Bolgatanga Rehabilitation Training Centre was closed down due to lack of feeding grants/funds, the government has still not made funds available for the reopening of the centre. The closure saw about fifty trainees being sent home..........Read More
CBR Section, Faculty of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation, Kyambogo University, P.O.Box 114 Kyambogo
Uganda, Tel: 0414 574462 , Email:: info@afri-can.org or grace@afri-can.org
