TH: Hi everyone, my name is Tessa I work with AMES Australia and I manage all of the disability projects. Today I am with my friend and colleague Janet Curtain, can you please introduce yourself.
JC: As Tessa said, my name is Janet Curtain and I have Cerebral Palsy. I live in the West of Melbourne and I have two children and I am also a self-advocate for a self-advocacy group.
TH: Janet, today we are talking because it is the International Day for People with a Disability on the 3rdh of December, which is a really important day for us to be celebrating. Could you please tell me what this day means to you?
JC: Well international disability day is very important to me because I am a Chinese Australia so that means I feel like I am in a progressive country that knows how to work in the social model of disability and we value people with disability and we listen to what their needs are and we work together in the community. That is what I think the day means, like, to recognise the work that we have done together to make a more inclusive Australia.
TH: Great thanks Janet. I know that you identify as a self-advocate. So, self-advocacy is a term that we use a lot within the disability sector but for people who aren’t involved in disability can you please tell us what self-advocacy is?
JC: Well, self-advocacy is a movement made up of people with disability talking about what their rights are and what services should be doing. It’s a voice it’s a tool to change policy and disability and change attitude towards people with disability. It’s a movement, its people with disability working together to create and promote change.
TH: You run your own self-advocacy organisation can you tell us a little bit about that please?
JC: Yes, so, we found it last year in April and its call Power in Culture and Ethnicity and we stand up for people with a disability from a non-English speaking background. So most of our focus is on disability discrimination and racism so we recognise that there are layers of injustice when we are working with people from a CALD background.
TH: Great, thanks Janet and thanks for speaking with me today and Happy International Day for People with a Disability!
JC: Happy International Disability Day!
Arabic
Hi, my name is Jolie, I have a message for you, to the people who have disability, I hope they can achieve their gaols, ambition and dreams. As a community connector I can help you to get support and services by help you to connect with NDIS. You can contact me on email alotryj@ames.net.au . Happy International Day of people with disability.
مرحبا، اسمي جولي، لدي رسالة لك، الى الناس الذين لديهم إعاقة أتمنى لكم تحقيق اهدافكم وطموحاتكم واحلامكم في الحياة انا كشخصية رابط المجتمع أستطيع مساعدتك للحصول على الخدمات والدعم من خلال ربطك بهيئة دعم المعاقين NDIS.
أتمنى لكم يد وطني سعيد للناس ذوي الإعاقة
International Disability Day means a lot to me. I hope it means a lot to you too because disability can happen to anyone at anytime and anywhere regardless of our race, gender,
belief and age. So, it’s very significant to help each other.
I am origin from Myanmar. I speak Burmese, Chin-Zomi, Chin-Tedim and Thadou-Chin. I am currently working as a National Community Connector at AMES Australia. I really enjoy assisting people with disability to get access to the NDIS service and the support they need.
It makes me feel really proud to be able to support people with disability. Please contact me on: haukips@ames.net.au, if you have any query or, if you need more information about NDIS and disability. Thank you so much”
အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ မသန္မစြမ္းသူေတြရဲ့ေန ့ဟာ ကၽႊန္ေတာ့္အတြက္အလြန္အေရၾကီးတဲ့ေန
့ျဖစ္သလို၊ သင္တို ့အတြက္လည္းအေရးၾကီးမယ္လို ့ေမ်ွာ္လင့္ပါတယ္။ အဘယ့္ေၾကာင့္ဆိုေတာ္၊
မသန္မစြမ္းျခင္းဟာဘယ္ေနရာမဆို၊
လူမ်ိဴးမေရြး၊ဘာသာမေရြး၊အသက္အရြယ္မေရြး၊ေယာက္က်ားမိန္းမမေရြး၊
အခ်ိန္မေရြးျဖစ္ပြားႏိႈင္တဲ့ေရာဂါေ၀ဒနာတစ္ပါးျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ထို ့ေၾကာင့္ကၽႊႏႈိပ္တို
့အားလံုးအခ်င္းခ်င္းကူညီၾကဖို ့လိုအပ္ပါသည္။
ကၽႊန္ေတာ္ဟာျမန္မာျပည္ကလာတဲ့ခ်င္းတိုင္းရင္းသာေလးတစ္ေယာက္ပါ။ ယခုလက္ရွိ AMES
Australia မွာ National Community Connector တာ၀န္ထမ္းေဆာင္လွ်က္ရွိပါသည္။
အထူးသျဖင့္ မသန္မစြမ္းသူေတြကိုကူညီရတာ ကၽႊန္ေတာ္အလြန္ဂုဏ္ယူပါသည္။ NDIS
၏၀န္ေဆာင္မႈေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း၊ မသန္မစြမ္းျခင္းအေၾကာင္းပိုမိုသိရွိေမးျမန္းလိုပါက
ကၽႊန္ေတာ့္ကို haukips@ames.net.au အားျဖင့္အခ်ိန္မေရြးဆက္သြယ္ႏႈိင္ပါသည္။
ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။
Hi
My name is Ardavan Niknam.
The International Day of people with disability is celebrated on 3 December each year internationally.
This is a day for increasing public awareness of the situation of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic, and cultural life.
To me, the international day of disability means we should respect the hard work and dedication performed by people with disability.
It means we can promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in society and help them to feel they are equal member of society same others.
I, as a community connector identifying and engaging people with disability and their carers and help them to access the NDIS and use their plan.
We are working in south east of Melbourne including greater Dandenong and Casey. If you need more information, contact me through my email address. My email address is:
NiknamA@ames.net.au
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این روز برای افزایش آگاهی عمومی در مورد موقعیت افراد معلول در زمینه‌های اجتماعی، سیاسی ، اقتصادی و فرهنگی می‌باشد
از نگاه من این روز روزی است برای به احترام و کوشش‌ها و فدا کاریهای افراد معلول می‌باشد
این روز به این معنا است که ما میتونیم حق و حقوق و سلامتی افراد معلول را افزایش دهیم و به آنها کمک کنیم که حس کنند دارای حقوقی برابر با دیگر افراد میباشند
من به عنوان یک رابط اجتماعی در ایمز به افرد معلول و سرپرست آنان کمک می‌کنم که به ان دی‌ای اس و برنامه آن دسترسی دسته باشند
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NiknamA@ames.net.au