The Open Hands Initiative has teamed up with E-Era (Egyptian Association for Educational Resources) on a project to bring the Silver Scorpion comic book to the youths of Egypt. In an effort to share the comic book with local schools and to improve awareness and understanding, the Open Hands Initiative and E-Era hosted a community […]
Category: Disability and Accessibility
December 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a day of observance established by the United Nations in 1992. Volunteers from around the globe celebrate the day in order to promote inclusion and awareness about disability issues. This year’s theme is “Keeping the promise: Mainstreaming disability in the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015 and […]
Last week, representatives from 39 states and 42 countries attended the U.S. Summit for Global Citizen Diplomacy. The event marked the first time in 50 years that public and private leaders gathered to discuss “citizen diplomacy”– the efforts of everyday citizens to engage with the world through people-to-people exchanges. More than 500 people attended the […]
The Open Hands Initiative would like to congratulate all of those who participated in the 7th Regional Special Olympics, which took place this year in Syria from September 25 to October 3. More than 2,500 athletes from 23 countries across the Middle East and North Africa convened in Damascus to compete in sporting events from […]
By Hamza Jaka The Youth Ability Summit was an incredible experience. I’d done international work before, but nothing like this. It was amazing to be able to share my knowledge with many other disabled youth from America and Syria. We found we had so much in common and so many shared experiences that it felt […]