Disability Matters Finding Our Way in the Global Village
A P R I L / M A Y / J U N E 2 0 0 5 Finding Our Way Disability Matters in the Global e’re happy to announce that North Country Public Radio is partnering Wwith Independent Living Centers in the North Country as part of a major project to raise public awareness of the challenges faced by people living with Village disabilities. The special year-long project is part of Sound Partners for Commu- nity Health, a highly competitive program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson A week-long worldwide Foundation through the Benton Foundation, to join the forces of local media conversation and community organizations. May 16 through 22 Over the next year NCPR will produce radio reports, audio diaries, com- mentaries, website features, and call-in programs focusing on the social and hether we live in the North policy issues that affect people with disabilities. The broadcasts will look at WCountry, Nicaragua or special challenges people with disabilities encounter in the North Country, Nepal, our lives are interconnected and the special strengths our region offers. Funding for these reports is also as they’ve never been before. provided by the Adirondack Medical Center Foundation. What we wear, what we eat, how The first series of radio segments, which will air the week of April 25, will we work, how we communicate, introduce overall quality of life issues: living at home, getting around, getting almost everything we do, is part of and keeping a job, getting an education, and getting old. Staff and volunteers at the Centers for Independent Living in Plattsburgh, a spectacularly complex web of glo- Malone and Watertown will lead an outreach campaign to bring health care con- bal interaction.
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