Handicap International UK.

Handicap International is an independent charity working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work tirelessly alongside disabled and vulnerable people to help meet their basic needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights. Since it was founded in 1982, Handicap International has gone on to work in around 60 countries worldwide. Our work has benefited several million people in that time. Handicap International was a co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines which led to the signing of the Mine Ban Treaty. Our vision is of a world where all one billion people with disabilities can fully access and exercise their human rights.

Handicap International’s actions specifically target:

• Vulnerable populations and in particular people with disabilities and people living with chronic disabling diseases
• Populations at risk of diseases, violence or accidents liable to cause disability
• Refugees, populations living in disaster areas or displaced by crisis, conflicts and catastrophes, especially targeting people who are vulnerable, disabled or injured
• Populations threatened by weapons, such as landmines and cluster munitions, during or in the aftermath of a conflict.