The Arts
&
Social Justice / Social Issues
ARTS & THE DISABLED
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© Grace Wiebe, EthniClay, 2004
Art Works to Help Fund People With Disabilities/Services that Serve People With Disabilities
Modelling Clay figurines/blank note cards - artwork of disabled people (by a disabled person)
RESOURCES
for THOSE WITH DISABILITIES and THEIR CARE-GIVERS
The
Arts and the Disabled
Art for Children &
Adults with Disabilities
Arts &
the Disabled - resources
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS:
Children Needing Protection in Turkey
Call
for Entries
Canadian
Resources for Disabled Artists
Careers and the
Arts
Disabilities
and Arts Resources Directories
Disability Clip Art
EnableLink
- the arts and disabilities
Funding: The Arts and Accessibility
Technical Assistance Program (Text)
Statewide Forums
on Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities
Glossary of Terms Used re
the Arts and Accessibility
Let
Them Hear: Getting Your Church Looped
Library
on the Arts and Disabilities
How
Can Our Worship Services Be More Welcoming to People with Disabilities?
National Arts & Disability
Center
Planet Amber
Arts & Culture resources
Readings
in Arts & Disabilities
Resources
for Disabled People
Society for Disability Arts & Culture
Giving or Receiving Donations - food, arts equipment, clothing, computers, etc.
JustGive
Guide
How
To Get Free Food, Clothing, Computers -- Almost Anything Given To You By Major
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ART WORKS to Help Fund People With Disabilities/Services that Serve People With Disabilities
MCC Supportive Care Services
Joni & Friends -
art
Artists
With Disabilities Exhibit
Wildlife
Fundraising Calendar - 2005
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: Children Needing Protection in Turkey
Excerpts from an email sent from Turkey on November 3, 2005:
Dear Friends,
Something is happening in Turkey....Three weeks ago the Mental Disabilities
Rights International
organization published a scathing report on the treatment of children with
mental disabilities in state-run institutions as well as the barbaric treatment
of psychiatric patients. At their website : <http://www.mdri.org>
you can read "Behind Closed Doors" which documents the results of
severe neglect and violence to those helpless ones. Chilling reading based
on first-hand experience. There you can also watch a video of interviews and
footage from inside
institutions, among them one of them where we work.
The Turks public's first major reaction was embarrassment that this was
brought to the international community's attention. Officials seems more incensed
that the accusations were brought by foreigners
rather than about the suffering that was being exposed..
This week something else happened which seems to be having a much greater
effect: Turkish journalists managed to plant secret cameras in a state-run
orphanage for healthy children under the age of six. This
place is found in Malatya, some 10 hours east of Ankara....
Horrifying footage resulted. Little emaciated children screamed and trembled
as the uneducated "care-givers" known as "mothers" to
these kids, beat and cursed them, poured scalding water on them, knocked heads
together and threw them around the room. This footage has been aired over
and over and over the last four nights on all the TV channels and news programs.
All the newspapers carry the headlines denouncing the brutality described
by one commentator as "Na=zi concentration camp"- type horror. The
theme has been to condemn to government officials who have known for years
about the situation but have not significantly changed the system. If it happened
at Malatya, it's happening elsewhere, too, the newspapers surmise. Our prayer
for years has been that the system would be changed. We need to keep applying
prayer pressure. May the Father of the
fatherless and weak give Turkish planners and authorities the will and wisdom
to implement deep change for everyone in their care..."