Disabled persons

Development and assistance for disabled persons

NGO transfers schools for blind, deaf to government

This week, 25 years after a Frenchmen created the first of five specialized schools for blind and deaf students, it is handing over the schools—plus the tools and expertise its staff developed over decades—to the Cambodian government. ...

Michelle Vachon
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-transfers-schools-for-blind-deaf-to-government-108648/

Wheelchair accessible tuk-tuk debuts

The maker of a new tuk-tuk prototype retrofitted with a wheelchair ramp hopes to usher in a new era of wheelchair-friendly travel in Phnom Penh. ...

Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wheelchair-accessible-tuk-tuk-debuts

Premier fed up with insensitive remarks about eye

Prime Minister Hun Sen, who lost an eye fighting for the Khmer Rouge during the April 1975 battle for Phnom Penh, is sick and tired of being called “a blind eye guy”. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/premier-fed-insensitive-remarks-about-eye

Prime Minister Hun Sen calls for local televisions to increase sign languages broadcasting for deaf-and-mute persons

Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen and his spouse, Samdach Bun Rany Hun Sen, this morning paid a visit to NGO Krousar Thmey in Phnom Penh, where he called for the public not discriminate people with disabilities. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen-calls-for-local-televisions-to-increase-sign-languages-broadcasting-for-deaf-and-mute-persons-9116

Gov to give drivers licenses to people with disabilities

Em Chan Makara, president of the Disability Action Council (DAC), told reporters that his group will issue drivers licenses for people with disabilities in conjunction with the government. The council will also discuss appropriate vehicles for disabled people with other stakeholders. ...

Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18828/gov-to-give-drivers-licenses-to-people-with-disabilities/

Experts say gov’t all talk, no action on support for disabled

Marking the Cambodian Day of Persons with Disabilities on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An encouraged all government ministries to make an effort to employ more people with disabilities, though experts say the government should be more proactive. ...

Khy Sovuthy and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/xperts-say-govt-all-talk-no-action-on-support-for-disabled-102332/

Swiss foundation donates hearing aids to disadvantaged Cambodian children

Hear The World Foundation, which is an initiative of the Switzerland-based Sonova Group, on Friday donated 150 sets of hearing aids to a Cambodian charitable organization in order to help children with hearing loss. Sarah said the value of the 150 hearing aids, hearing aid ...

Xinhua News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/14/c_134816284.htm

NGO gets UNICEF aid for speech therapy training

In an effort to address speech and communication disorders, which affect about one in 25 people countrywide, Unicef Cam­bo­dia awarded the organization OIC: The Cambodia Project a $42,000 grant on Wednesday to provide informal speech therapy training to Cambodians. ...

Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-gets-unicef-aid-for-speech-therapy-training-97450/

Old hearing aids add to quality of life

ROSEBUD audiologist Fallon Arnold is about to head off on a two-week volunteer placement for All Ears Cambodia, based in the capital, Phnom Penh.The organisation offers a range of hearing health services to those afflicted with hearing loss or ear-health problems, such as infections. ...

Stephen Taylor
http://mpnews.com.au/2015/10/13/old-hearing-aids-add-to-quality-of-life/

Bassaka puts the blame on CAMS

The government has asked the company that manages airports in Cambodia to explain why, according to airline Bassaka Air, it demanded $240 from the carrier for helping a disabled passenger board one of its aircraft.Bassaka Air, which found itself at the centre of a media ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bassaka-puts-blame-cams

Krousar Thmey requests media to help encourage parents to send disabled kids to school

General Director of Krousar Thmey Herve Roqueplan had asked minister of information Khieu Kanharith to help encouraging private-run and state-run media to bring on air a video clip, encouraging parents to send their disabled kids to school. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/krousar-thmey-requests-media-to-help-encourage-parents-to-send-disabled-kids-to-school-8895

Gov’t ramping up plan for tourist-site access

A push is on to mandate handicapped-accessible ramps at the Kingdom’s tourist attractions, a member of the government’s Disability Action Council (DAC) said yesterday. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-ramping-plan-tourist-site-access

Speech therapists struggle to meet the needs of many

Speech therapy is slowly gaining ground in Cambodia. That’s good news for children like Lin, 14, who lives in Siem Reap province and in the past has hardly said a word to anyone, including his family. He has had some speech therapy, however, and on ...

Leng Sreynich
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/speech-therapists-struggle-to-meet-the-needs-of-many/2883631.html

Give disabled people their pensions: NGO

Advocates for the disabled yesterday criticised the slow implementation of Cambodia’s six-year-old disability law and urged the government to hasten the process by starting the distribution of the monthly $5 pension that people with disabilities were promised in 2011 through a separate sub-decree. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/give-disabled-people-their-pensions-ngo

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