DIALOGUE
THAT INCLUDES:
Dignifying
Persons with Disabilities, Everyone
03 December 2016
"When I am down, and,
oh, my soul, so weary
When troubles come, and my
heart burdened be
Then, I am still and wait
here in the silence
Until you come and sit
awhile with me.
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You raise me up, so I can
stand on mountains
You raise me up to walk on
stormy seas
I am strong when I am on
your shoulders
You raise me up to more
than I can be."
~ from You Raise Me Up
Brendan Graham & Rolf Lvland (2002)
"I can fly higher than
an eagle,
For you are the wind
beneath my wings."
~ from Wind Beneath My Wings (1982)
Jeff Silbar and
Larry Henley
This December 2016
Season of Light is
a time to celebrate 18 years of gathering thousands of human success stories of
good communication and relationship-building -- raising up one another.
Light shines on these acts of creating a "Culture of Connection" preserved
for posterity in 700 resource-rich documents at http://traubman.igc.org/messages.htm
We are also reminded of our daily, personal power to diminish and disable
another human being or people.
Let us avoid closing our ears, minds, and hearts in ways that drive one another
into painful -- even crippling -- despair and toward desperate acts that
disable relationships and further divide us.
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Today, December 3rd, is International Day of Persons with Disabilities --
http://www.un.org/en/events/disabilitiesday/
This global observance encouraged by the United Nations since 1992 reminds
us to understand and respect the physical, emotional, social, and economic
challenges of fellow human beings.
Our great, shared, daily imperative is to listen carefully to their
stories, respond to their needs, assure their equal rights, and provide them
with opportunities.
We further dignify them -- and ourselves -- by increasing public awareness of gains
to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect
of social, economic, and cultural life on Earth.
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Africa and Africans provide some of the most dramatic, instructive examples
of inviting, including, hearing, and dignifying persons with disabilities.
These modern-day African connectors are emerging from roots in earlier,
formative face-to-face Dialogue experience.
Today
1. Including Persons with Disabilities in Democratic Republic of Congo
(western)
2. Including Persons with Disabilities in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
3. Including Persons with Disabilities in Democratic Republic of Congo
(eastern)
4. Music: "We Are the World"
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Including Persons with Disabilities in
Democratic Republic of Congo (western)
http://traubman.igc.org/vidnigeriadrcongo.htm
A. Albino ~ Non-Albino
Reconciliation
B. Dignifying Citizens with
Physical Handicaps
C.
Including and Dignifying Non-Hearing Citizens
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Including Persons with Disabilities in
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
http://traubman.igc.org/vidnigeriaivorycoast.htm
A. Albino ~ Non-Albino
Reconciliation in southern Cote d'Ivoire
B. Albino ~ Non-Albino
Reconciliation Workshop in Bouake, northern Cote d'Ivoire
C. Albino ~ Non-Albino Dialogue
Reconciliation in Yamoussoukro-Toumodi, northern Cote
d'Ivoire
D.
Humanizing & Integrating Persons with Physical Handicaps in Cote d'Ivoire
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Including Persons with Disabilities in
Democratic Republic of Congo (eastern)
http://traubman.igc.org/vidnigeriadrcongoeast.htm
A. Albino ~ Non-Albino
Relationship Building and Radio Broadcast Education
B.
Albino ~ Non-Albino Dialogue in Uvira
= = 4 = =
Music
We Are
the World
by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie
8-min music video
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This message is on the Web at http://traubman.igc.org/messages/701.htm
Hundreds of other success stories are preserved at http://traubman.igc.org/messages.htm