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Henriette snaggat hår, har skoluniform och håller i en krycka.

Jag är likadan som andra barn

Henriette Kwizera är 12 år gammal och har en fysisk funktionsnedsättning. Hon bor tillsammans med sina föräldrar, äldre bror och lillasyster i Nyaruguru District i södra provinsen i Rwanda och går tredje året i grundskolan.

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Sada hålller i sin taktil tolkens händer

New way of communicating helped Sada break the isolation

17-year-old Sada Igikundiro was born deaf and when she was six years old she also lost her sight. Sada could no longer communicate with the outside world and life turned into a passive waiting at home for another day to pass. But thanks to a project where deafblind people learn to communicate using tactile sign language, her life changed.

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Jados son Massa binder sin get vid ett träd.

Jado fights for his sons to be respected

Jado lives with his family in the small village of Urugero, in the eastern province of Rwanda. He has six children. Two of them are blind. None of the sons have been allowed to go to the village school because the teachers have not considered it relevant that they should receive an education.

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