We:
• Raise awareness of landmines and clear areas of unexploded munitions
• Provide artificial limbs to help disabled people become mobile and rebuild their lives
• Stand up for the rights of disabled people so they have access to education and work opportunities

Since Handicap International ‘s creation in 1982, our work has benefited several million people across 60 countries affected be poverty and conflict. Our vision is a world where all disabled people can fully access and exercise their human rights

Did you know?

There are 600 million disabled people worldwide. 80% of them live in developing countries.

50% of disabilities are preventable and directly linked to poverty.

Less than 2% of disabled children in developing countries receive education.

With the help of Handicap International UK, U Mong Wing learnt to walk

Handicap International UK helped Aline integrate into a new family

When Dam was seven years old he and his friends were collecting honey in the forest. They came across a cluster bomb, one of thousands that litter the Laos. Out of curiosity, Dam threw the bomb at a piece of wood. On the second attempt it exploded with devastating effects. Dam's injuries were life-threatening. Thankfully, a team from Handicap International was close by. After two months in hospital Dam made a full recovery. Thousands of others aren't so lucky.

Aline lost her entire family, apart from a brother three years her senior during the genocide in Rwanda. Aline was just a few months old when she was taken in by a centre for unaccompanied children and orphans. At the centre, she was entrusted to the care of Alphonsine, who lived at the centre with one-year old daughter Leonie. Aline had trouble integrating with this new family, but through workshops and home visits organised by Handicap International Aline began to gradually break free from her feeling of abandonment. Aline has now formed strong new family ties.

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