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A Mother breaks barriers to send her Son to School
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
Kumari Magar accompanied by her husband, Milan Kumar Magar never gave up going to different hospitals outside their village in the hopes to cure their son, Kiran Thapa Magar of blindness. Kiran was born with blindness in a remote village in the Okhaldhunga District of Nepal’s Province 1 in 2010. […]
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Disability in austerity: Britain’s chase for exclusive economic growth
Written by Dominika Kaczkowska
In my second year at university, I volunteered to help at the 2010 Special Olympic Games in Warsaw (Poland), the largest sporting competition for athletes with intellectual disabilities. Unfortunately, the Special Olympics are held in the shadow of the more famous Paralympic Games which come immediately after the Olympics. Nevertheless […]
