Credit source: FAO/19553 (South Asian man with leprosy holding staffs of wheat)

Credit source: Christian Foundation for the Blind in Thailand.(Cambodian wheelchair repairing radio)

Credit source: Handicapped International. (Cambodian man guiding oxplow using artifitial leg)

Credit source: International Disability Foundation/G. Reid (Old man Ethiopian affected by leprosy)

Credit source: Christian Foundation for the Blind in Thailand. (Thai blind woman silk weaving)

Credit source: Christian Foundation for the Blind in Thailand.(Thai blind man harvesting mushrooms)

Credit source: International Disability Foundation. (Woman with leprosy)

Credit source: FAO. (FAO Bangkok Roundtable group photo)

Credit source: ILO/A.Somogy (Kenya leg amputee man cutting wood)

Credit source: ILO/J.Maillard (Kuwait disabled women in wheelchair drawing at blackboard)

Credit source: International Disability Foundation. (Ugandan girl with CB using walker)

Credit source: WFP/P.Mitchell (Cambodia male teenager leg amputee posing in village)

Credit source: L. de Toledo. (Mauritania hungry primary school girl eating form plastic bowl)

Credit source: WFP/T.Haskell. (Angola boy leg amputee in sitting in workshop making crutches)

Credit source: DUTOIT/CICR/Handicap International. (Cambodia young boy lying on ground disabling landmine)

Credit source: Handicap International. (Thailand young boy mine victim)

Credit source: Handicap International. (Cambodian farmer with straw hat kneeling just outside of roped off mined area)

Credit source: FAO/Johanne Hanko.

UNHCR

Credit source: WHO/ILO

Credit source: WHO/Rotary International/ P.Carlin

Credit source: WFP/T.Haskell (Angolan thatchmaking)

Credit source: Christian Foundation for the Blind in Thailand. (Thai blind woman harvesting rice)

Ms. Samlee is a 65 years old blind lady. She is very happy that she can get some income from cloth weaving. Although she stays alone in her house, she has many friends around her who encourage her and socialize with her

Mr. Khai is a 55 years old blind man who picks his mushrooms every morning to sell to the neighborhood. He has been trained through CBR field workers for orientation and mobility, and how to set up and manage a mushroom farm.

Cast out of her family because of leprosy: While no official statistics exist, all disability organisations have case files of women with disabilities who have been subjected to domestic violence

In May 1997, FAO organized a Regional Roundtable Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand to develop a strategy for the integration of the disabled into agricultural and agro-industry systems in which UN agencies, NGOs and representatives from key groups representing the disabled participated.

Training school setting.

Evaline Tushereirwe, who has cerebral palsy, can now stand and move outside her hut thanks to a frame designed by the community rehabilitation team.

Smiling, healthy looking.

Looks like a rice field.

Thai blind lady with silkworms. Ms. Banyen is a 47 years old blind lady living in Powdaeng village in Mahasarakham province. From a family of farmers, she takes care of the silk worms and feeds them twice a day.

African amputee repairing artificial leg.

Ethiopian disabled making umbrella.

All the workers in this Ethiopian umbrella factory have some form of physical disability.

Latin American wheelchair sports.

The degree to which children handicapped by polio are integrated in society will determine the role they can play in the community later in life.

Mine victims income generating activities in Angola.

Ms. Pad Thacha is a 45 years old blind lady who is harvesting rice.