Acknowledgement is due to the Council for advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CPART) for excerpts from their publication “disABILITY - A strategy to Promote the Participation of People with Disabilities in Programme for Rural Development”, New Delhi, 1996, in the preparation of these strategies.
Photograph Acknowledgements
Roi-Et Community Based Project in Thailand
The Association of Physically Handicapped Horticultural Project, Bangalore,
India
Mr. Cyril Siriwardane, Sri Lanka
Handicap International, Cambodia
| FAO Round Table Meeting for the Integration of Disabled Persons into Agricultural and Agro Industry Systems held from 13–15 May 1997 in Bangkok, Thailand | |
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| Official opening of the Round Table Meeting presided over by Dr. Soetatwo Hadiwigeno ADG/RR of FAO Regional Office | Mr. Eiichi Takada, President of the Japan Deaf Association, receives sign language in Japanese translation from English |
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| Observers from the Thai National Association of the Deaf are communicating from English to Thai sign lanugage in Thai | Mr. Prayat Punong-ong, President of the Christian Foundation for the Blind in Thailand reading the papers in Braille |
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| Senator Narong Patibutsarakich discusses issues with the Meeting Chairman Cyril Siriwardane and Lawrence Jacobson of FAO | Group photograph of the Round Table participants |
Cambodia: Standing up again after 25 years of warfare, Cambodians who are disabled are reintegrating into rural life and finding occupations for themselves | |
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| Amputee former soldiers getting back to farming | |
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| Simple radio repairs for communication | Sewing clothes in the village is a money making venture |
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| Feeding the chickens for household food security | Making brooms from forest products |
India: Horticulture for people with disabilities: 80% of people with disabilities in India live in rural areas. They are likely to be from poor families who lack resources and opportunities. The Association of Physically Handicapped Horticultural Project, Bangalore, India enables people with disabilities, to participate in agricultural activities, become active participants in their environment and gain skills for employment, with income-generating schemes that have been identified | |
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| Nursery for house and garden plants | |
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| Selling plants in the city | Corporate plant care service |
| Sri Lanka: Agricultural activities undertaken by disabled persons | |
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| Mr. Kiribanda is a farmer, married with 6 children | |
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| Mr. Podiappuhamy lost his hand in a threshing machine accident, but continues to do farm work | Mr. Kusumaratne, working on his knees, cultivates the field |
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| Mr. Ranasinghe works the onion fields with his family | Ms. Nandawathie grows and sells flowers |
Thailand: The Roi-Et Community Based Project in Thailand aims to include people with visual impairments into everyday village activities. They take part in agricultural, income generating and household activities | |
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| Ms. Nuan makes incense sticks and weaves cloth | |
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| Ms. Banyen actively takes care of the silk-worm farming | Mr. Kan and his wife make palm craft items, sold to support his family of five |
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| Ms. Tongdee works with her family in farming | Preparing the rice field for planting by disabled persons |
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| Piang's mushroom cultivation can support his family instead of being a financial burden | Sud grows vegetables to reduce her family's food expenses |
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| Pat and her husband are responsible for the buffaloes | Ms. Pat, though blind, harvests the rice successfully |
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| Family members of blind persons learning orientation techniques | |
