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GADRA Activates to Support Disability-Led Organization in Cameroon

GADRA activated its Emergency Operations Center in response to the February 22, 2024 fire at Bamenda Main Market in the North West region of Cameroon. By supporting the Community Creative Center a disability-led organization in the impacted region, GADRA is…

Meet The Disability-Led Organizations Responding To The Needs of People with Disabilities in Türkiye and Syria

Disability-Led Organizations Continue Responding to People with Disabilities in Türkiye and Syria Since the 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated parts of Türkiye and Syria, residents have experienced 22,000 additional earthquakes and aftershocks. In the midst of this overwhelming and ongoing crisis,…

Webinar Recording Available: GADRA Activates to Türkiye and Syria

Video recording from GADRA’s webinar, GADRA Activates to Türkiye and Syria. Recorded on Thursday, March 9, 2023. This recording has been edited to reduce technical errors and make the recording easier to understand, as well as to add open captions.…

Türkiye and Syria 3/17/2023 Update

Through the rapid response Emergency Operations Center, GADRA has connected with multiple disability-led organizations (DLOs) in Türkiye and Syria and is currently actively supporting four DLOs who are working tirelessly to assist people with disabilities impacted by the earthquakes. GADRA…

GADRA Activates to Support Disability-Led Organizations in Türkiye and Syria

GADRA activated its Emergency Operations Center in response to the February 6 earthquake in Türkiye and Syria. By supporting Disabled Person’s Organizations in the impacted region, GADRA expedites disability resources that are not provided by other humanitarian aid supply chains.…

October Updates from Fight For Right in Ukraine

Ukraine Evacuations Continue Fight For Right continues to evacuate people with disabilities from Ukraine. Support from GADRA and Nippon Foundation has allowed Fight For Right to purchase an accessible vehicle and enabled them to continue this invaluable work. Teplo Project:…

Celebrate Ukrainian Independence Day with FFR + GADRA

GADRA is joining Fight For Right to Celebrate Ukrainian Independence Day. Join us as we spend the day with Ukrainians who are still fighting for every life. Hear unspoken stories, watch mostly invisible heroes, share tears of loss and happiness, celebrate…

Ukraine Team Is Activated

Fight for Right, GADRA, and a team of experienced security personnel, are working around the clock to provide evacuation and shelter-in-place solutions that other humanitarian actors are not providing to Ukranians with disabilities. This response includes acquisition and provision of:

Accessible evacuation, border crossing assistance, and resettlement
Case management and care coordination
Centralized operations & communications
Mutual aid and agency networks
Individual and mental health assistance
Broad reaching systemic advocacy
Personal safety and protection
Disability related services and support
Disability-led engagement individual assistance and mental health support

Taking Action on Ukraine

The human rights of Ukrainian people with disabilities continue to be violated, their lives endangered, and their needs discarded. These atrocities require a global action.

GADRA understands that for global impact we must all begin locally and apply full force of our combined efforts on behalf of Ukrainians with disabilities.

In recent days GADRA has:

GADRA has deployed their full capacity in a comprehensive response to this disaster
Continued to support Fight For Right to manage their caseload of over 400 people needing evacuation to safe and appropriate destinations
Engaged with global agencies also interested in action on behalf of people with disabilities

Ukrainians with Disabilities Webinar and Transcript

On March 10, 2022, the Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration held a webinar where Fight for Right (FFR) provided an update on the situation for Ukrainians with disabilities. Watch the full webinar and click through to read the full transcript.

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