Recently members of our Empower Us Action Team have been working with Inclusion International members in different regions across the world on self-advocacy and inclusion.

David from New Zealand, Luis Gabriel from Colombia and Mark from Malawi explain more!

My name is Soufiane, I live in Belgium.

I am a self-advocate and work as part of the Empower Us Action Team.  

I also work at Inclusion Europe as the easy-to-read editor.

Easy-to-read is information that is written in a clear and easy to understand way.  

Many people with an intellectual disability as well as other groups of people find it useful.

Hello, my name is Judy Huett. I am from Speak Out Tasmania which is a
self-advocacy organisation. Tasmania is a small island state of Australia. I am part of the Empower Us Action Team

In May I attended the 17th World Congress in Birmingham and met hundreds of self-advocates from all over the world. It was an amazing experience!

As part of Inclusion international's #LearnInspireLead World Congress, Empower Us led a series of workshops on self-advocacy. 

In March, 2018 in Nepal in partnership with Inclusion International member PFPID we held a two day Empower Us training event for self-advocates and supporters.

The training was led by self-advocates leaders Mark from Malawi, Jayne from Kenya and David from New Zealand. There were 25 self-advocates from 5 countries across the region. 

We are really excited to announce our #EmpowerUs Action Team!

We now have a group of experienced self-advocate leaders from around the world who will be working with us and giving advice and support to anyone who needs help on self-advocacy and inclusion!

My name is Jayne Akinyi. I am from Kenya.

I am an intern for Empower Us.

Empower Us is Inclusion International’s self-advocacy initiative. In November 21st & 22nd, 2017 Empower Us ran Self-Advocacy Training in Togo. It was a two-day training about self-advocacy and support.