Working alongside Communidad has opened the doors to the inner workings of the indigenous Shipino Conibo community of Cantagallo - children’s inadequate access to foodstuff and its consequent effects on their physiology (i.e. majority being anaemic) has been the focal problem of our project. Having recently visited the community for the first time, exposed to its culture, values, history and daily operations has allowed us to understand more empathetically why the community is not flourishing. The challenge we currently face include aligning heavily theorised systemic issues facing the community with practical solutions to alleviate the proportion of children facing anaemia
My interest in disability law, more strictly from a jurisprudential standpoint, stems from my commitment to the enforcement of more holistic disability rights. Working with the HK Equal Opportunities Commission has given me a better understanding of both medical and social constructs of ''disabilities'' and the lack of infrastructure, unjustified but necessary for society to flourish.
In 2022 The Global Alliance of Assistive Technology Organizations (GAATO) published a long-list of 39 Assistive Technology (AT) Outcome ‘Grand Challenges’. This research project is concerned with the measurement of assistive technology outcomes and their impact at the individual level.
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