Advocacy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Persons with disabilities are one of the most overlooked and forgotten groups in our country. Find out the resources your community provides to those with disabilities. Help increase the independence and mobility of your differently-abled yet courageous neighbors.

Please consider visiting the following not-for-profit group websites and making a donation of time or money, if possible:

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund

Disability Rights Advocates

Independent Living Institute

"As long as we regard our disabilities as tragedies, we will be pitied. As long as we feel ashamed of who we are, our lives will be regarded as useless. As long as we remain silent, we will be told by others what to do."

- Adolf Ratzka, 2003