🌍🧡 Supporting and funding activists and organisations for #DisabilityJustice
UK / Africa / Asia
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ADD is a participatory grant-maker for #DisabilityJustice. We work in solidarity with disability justice movements to support them to thrive. We use our position & networks to facilitate the flow of resources & opportunities to disability justice movements in Africa and Asia.
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Write your will for free!
Jones Whyte are partnering with ADD to offer a free will writing service for ADD Supporters.
For more information, follow this link: add.org.uk/legacy/.
#DisabilityJustice #Giving #Gift #Will
The Robert Bosch Stiftung has a new funding program that aims to support organizations that work to tackle structural economic injustices led by those who have lived experiences of economic inequality.
Apply here: shorturl.at/4Hu3F. Deadline is December 15, 2024. #Funding
Already made a will?
No problem. If you’d like to change your will to include a gift to disability justice, check out more information on how this can be done here: add.org.uk/legacy/. #DisabilityJustice #Giving #Gift #Will
Help support future generations of disability justice activists by giving a Gift in your Will. Check out more information here: add.org.uk/legacy/. #DisabilityJustice #Giving #Gift #Will
Use your research skills to support disability justice. We are looking for four research assistants based in Ghana and Kenya to support a grant-funded research project. Check details here: add.org.uk/research-assistan…
#ADDOpportunities #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityResearch
ADD is supporting OPDs working on #MentalHealth in Bangladesh.
“Our organisation works in the slums. The people there are very poor. There are no doctors, no mental health services. I like that we can take mental health care to the slums.” Aleya, disability justice activist.
Look out for our advert in The @FT. This is an opportunity for you to support #DisabilityJustice. #InvestInExpertise
ALT A photo of Dorice who is a disability justice activist. She is seated in a wheelchair holding a ball. Banner has an orange background with the ADD logo at the bottom right. Text on banner Invest in expertise. Disabled people like Dorice are the real experts when it comes to disability justice, but their efforts are under resourced. Let's change that. add.org.uk
Earlier this year, we partnered with the @FT to support disability justice leaders in a coaching and mentorship program. Tahiya is one of the young leaders who took part in the training and she shares her experience: add.org.uk/partnering-with-f…
#DisabilityJustice #Mentorship
ALT Tahiya wearing eyeglasses, a brown cap, and a black t-shirt.
We are looking for a consultant to support a specific advocacy project leading up to the Global Development Summit in April 2025.
Check details to apply here: add.org.uk/more-and-better-f…
#DisabilityJustice #Opportunity
ONSIDE Fund is now OPEN. Funding is available to grassroots groups, organisations and individuals working at the intersection of disability, gender justice and sport to power feminist resistance and resilience.
Apply here: onsidefund.org/onside-2024
@Women_Win
ALT A young woman in black boxing shorts and t-shirt is extending her arm with a tight fist - as if hitting the air. Her other hand is protecting her face. Colourful background. The overlaying text reads "Apply to get funded! Find all information at onsidefund.org/onside-2024". Large ONSIDE Fund logo is visible.
Bond recently launched a new report: “Decolonising economic development: the role of development sector.”
You can access the report here: bond.org.uk/resources/decolo…
#DisabilityJustice #Decolonising #EconomicDevelopment
Embracing mental health and disability justice means acknowledging our unique journeys and lifting each other up. Together, we can create a world where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued. #MentalHealthMatters #DisabilityJustice
Today, on #WorldMentalHealthDay, we are highlighting the work of organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) campaigning for access to mental health support and tackling stigma in Bangladesh. #WMHD2024 #DisabilityJustice
“I am a person with a mental health problem. I have recovered a lot with the support of ADD’s mental health project. I am now leading an OPD. We have developed a project for our organisation. I cannot imagine how I have done so much.” Nasrin, Bangladesh.
ALT A picture of Nasrin, a disability justice activist from Bangladesh.
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Together with 35+ civil society leaders, we've published an open letter asking the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, to support a UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons.
Read the letter: bit.ly/3ZEDTEE
Add your name: bit.ly/3znM65K
In this blog, our Director of Funding, Communications and Transformative Partnerships, Sabina Basi shares about the role fundraisers can play in creating a fairer funding system. Read it here: add.org.uk/the-role-that-fun…
#DisabilityJustice #FairerFunding #Philanthropy #ShiftThePower
We are pleased to feature in @WHO's Southeast Asia Regional publication on community-based mental health services for our work on raising awareness around mental health and access to support in Bangladesh.
We are now expanding on this work to make grants to organisations of persons with disabilities working in mental health.
Follow this link: who.int/publications/i/item/… as we share our impact and key learnings (Page.35). #MentalHealth #DisabilityJustic