White paper on the condition of disabled person in Cameroon

UNAPHAC is a non-profit making organization that was officially created in 1996. It sets out six main objectives, namely :

·        To bring together Associations and Institutions of/and for Disabled

Persons in Cameroon;

·        To harmonize their actions;

·        To contribute towards the intellectual, physical and moral fulfilment of disabled persons;

·        To see to the representativity of disabled persons at; decision-making bodies both at the national and international level;

·        To promote the information, sensitisation, training, socio-economic integration and the defence of the interests of disabled persons;

·        To encourage the affiliation of legally recognized associations and institutions to UNAPHAC.

Its main driving force is Mr ONDOUA AI I Gabriel, a High School teacher. Mr ONDOUA ABAH Gabriel became disabled after a quinimax injection. Very early in life, he started the crusade which he leads against misery, exclusion and all forms of injustice and frustrations faced by disabled persons with determination and obstinacy. Mr ONDOUA ABAH is also the National President of the Association of the physically Disabled and Amputees of Cameroon (AHMAC); Executive Director of the National Union of Associations and Institutions of and/for Disabled Persons in Cameroon (UNAPHAC); President of the Central African Federation of Organizations for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Disabled Persons (FACAPH). Appointed United Nations expert on disability related problems in 1991, he is also an elected member of the World Council of Disabled Peoples International (DPI). He has already taken part in about forty international meetings more as a speaker than a simple delegate. These meetings always have to do with the problems of disability or human rights. He holds several end-of-training attestations in this domain.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter I Identification and analysis of the problems of disabled persons in Cameroon

1.  School integration difficulties faced by disabled persons (R.6).

2.  Inaccessibility to employment and obstacles to the fight against misery (R.7)

3.  An increasing marginalization through socio-economic and political exclusion

a.  Inaccessibility to public and private infrastructure (R.5)

b.  The perpetual search for integration in the transport system                

c.  Distances from worship-and touristic sites

d.  Banishment from political domains and activities

Chapter II Proposed alternative solutions to the problems of disabled persons in Cameroon

1.  The ways and means of the school integration of disabled persons.

2.  Professional integration and the fight against misery

3.  Building the capacity of disabled persons organizations (R. 18).

4.  The effective implementation of the Plan of Action of the African Decade of Disabled Persons

5.  Veritable access to public and private infrastructure (R.5)

6.  Setting in motion a permanent sensitization and information campaign

Conclusion

Selected bibliography

List of abbreviations and acronyms

Some Useful addresses