Brazil

According to the 2000 census, 14.5% of Brazilians (that is some 26 million people) have some form of disability. To different degrees they all experience social exclusion, made worse by factors such as poverty, gender and age. Created and led by people with disabilities, MID is active at the municipal, state and national level. In this project, MID proposes to create a radio programme 'Minute of Inclusion' for and by people with disabilities; a news agency 'Defpress' which will distribute news about people with disabilities and their organisations; an Internet page which will host and make available free of charge all the materials produced by the radio programmes and by the news agency. As a result of this project a national network of production of news and information of, by and for disabled people will be created. This is the second phase of a project which during 2007 produced radio programmes broadcast by Radiobrás, Brazil's federal government radio station network. During phase one new partners and supporters joined MID's efforts, among them CONADE, the National Council for the Rights of People with Disabilities, the Dioceses of Sao Andres and OBORE (Social Enterprise of Communication and Arts). The support of CONADE is strategic since other organizations which advocate the rights of people with disabilities will be reached through it and other disabled people will become part of the process of production, exchange and circulation of information. This project contributes to strengthening and widening of the capacity of the disabled movement to produce information and communication in order to contribute as a movement of disabled people to national dialogue and work with other organised social movements as well as with the state.

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