The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Campaign to promote awareness on disabilities

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Campaign to promote awareness on disabilities

Staff Reporter

— Photo: K. Murali Kumar

Creating awareness: Disabled persons taking part in the sports meet held by the Department of Welfare of Disabled and Senior Citizens in Bangalore on Wednesday. The DEOC has appealed to corporate companies to create awareness on disabilities.

BANGALORE: With the aim of promoting job opportunities for persons with disabilities in the corporate sector, the Diversity & Equal Opportunity Centre (DEOC), an organisation promoting diversity and equal opportunities in corporate companies, has launched a national campaign to promote awareness on disabilities as part of World Disability Day.

The organisation has appealed to all corporate companies to observe National Disability Awareness Week from December 3 to 7 and to create awareness on the issue of disability in their companies and to promote inclusion of the disabled.

To facilitate the observance of the awareness week in various companies, the DEOC has developed a disability awareness website, www.wdd.co.in, which has information regarding Disability Awareness Week; information on the common theme; activities that companies can hold during the week; awareness and promotional materials that can be downloaded and an online awareness/training module.

The website has been designed in such a way that it is accessible to people with disabilities. It has been designed according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines which aims at making websites accessible to all.

Any visually impaired person with basic screen-reading software will be able to gain full access to the website. The awareness week will culminate on December 8 with “Moksha”, a contemporary dance troupe,, presenting a “Colours of Freedom” dance to promote the concept of human diversity & inclusion in the IT city of Bangalore. The message of the dance is that disability is not a barrier for performance.

This year is significant as India has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD). The UN has declared the theme for the World Disability Day 2007 as “Decent Work for Persons with Disability.”

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