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Disability
Empowerment
Training in a flat lets people with intellectual disability make sense of money
Angela Shafer, community education coordinator from Northside Partnership in Dublin, wants to alert community workers to work being done in their area through SICAP that may be of help to people in other counties. Specifically, an initiative promoting financial inclusion among people with intellectual disabilities.
Activism & Volunteering
‘We Are Human Too’ book launch celebrates disability activists
The Clare Leader Forum has launched a new book that puts the spotlight on the work of disabled activists.
Empowerment
ILMI launches strategic plan for “a more inclusive Ireland”
Independent Living Movement Ireland (ILMI) has launched a new strategic plan, which it describes as “solidifying its commitment to championing the rights and inclusion of disabled people nationwide”.
Funding Programmes
Dormant Accounts Fund to provide €47.6 million for disadvantaged communities
The Dormant Accounts Fund will provide over €11.3 million to the Department of Rural and Community Development for Rethink Ireland, social inclusion, and other measures geared at addressing disadvantage
Events
Dublin Theatre Festival is ‘All In’ for universal access
– Access Programme makes attending easy
– 600 people bought discounted €10 tickets in 2022
Activism & Volunteering
Legendary lessons in rarely told stories of grassroots struggle and change
"Younger disabled people are unaware of what went before, of the struggle, the heroes and the torch that is being passed on"
Funding
Government urged to increase child benefit by €50 to alleviate child poverty
At the launch of its Budget 2024 briefing today, Social Justice Ireland called for a monthly increase of €50 in child benefit payments for all.
Income & Employment
New course beats challenges facing people with disabilities who seek self-employment
Since last September, people with a disability who wish to start their own business have an opportunity to do so through the Self-Employment for People with Disabilities module within the Continuing Professional Development programme at Technological University Dublin.
