APCD Office |
Visit to APCD in Bangkok |
In November, the staff of the Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability came to Phnom Penh to present a workshop on deafness. As a follow up to this workshop, Charlie Dittmeier visited the APCD office in Bangkok on the way to meetings in southern Thailand. | |
The president of the National Association of the Deaf, Thailand. | |
A meeting of APCD with the president of NADT. | |
APCD has a wonderful training center at their headquarters, built with funds from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). APCD organizes training here for people with disabilities from all over Asia. | |
The meeting room in the training center. | |
The computer training laboratory, equipped with computers with all sorts of assistive devices to help people with disabilities. | |
The dining room of the training center. | |
The center has fully accessible accommodations for about 35 people with disabilities at one time. | |
APCD even has its own accessible bus for taking people with disabilities on field trips and site visits as part of their training. |
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