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The Philippine Statistics Authority recorded a total of 1.443 million people in the Philippines (1.57% of the total population) has disability as of 2010 and categorized them according to age group, gender, and region. [2]
The Philippines' National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) (formerly National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons or NCWDP) is the national government agency mandated to formulate policies and coordinate the activities of all agencies, whether public or private, concerning disability issues and concerns. As such, the NCWDP is the ...
The activity coincides with the Philippine celebration of National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week (July 19–23, 2007). May 12, 2008 – After six years of deliberation and almost a year after its signing, the Philippines became the 23rd country that ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The Philippine House Special Committee on Persons with Disabilities is a special committee of the ... House of Representatives of the Philippines; List of Philippine ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Filipino people. It includes Filipino people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disabled people from the Philippines .
The Cebu-based dragon boat team comprises people with disabilities — some are amputees, while others are deaf or blind. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] PADS Dragon Boat Team is the first cross-disability adaptive dragon boat racing team in the Philippines.
The Philippine Paralympic Committee (PPC), formerly known as Philippine Sports Association for the Differently Abled—National Paralympic Committee of the Philippines, is the national sports association for physically impaired athletes, tasked to spearhead developing sport competency for Filipino persons with disabilities.
Senarath Attanayake, Member of Uva Provincial Council; first elected representative with a disability in Sri Lanka; first person with a disability to hold ministerial portfolios (Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, Land and Forestry) and to become an Acting Chief Minister of a Province; first person with a disability to become a lawyer in Sri ...