No matter where we go; either visiting local schools or interviewing a family in need, we tried our best to cheer people on so they can be the best they can be. Chair Advocates is a youth venture located in New York advocating on behalf of people with wide range of physical disabilities. This venture came about when a group of high school and college students saw the need for funding of adaptive equipments or assistive technology in their community. The underlying problem was twofold; many students is either not using an equipment which they should be using or they are using the wrong equipment for their type of disability. Chair Advocates address these problems by offering financial assistance to low income individuals with disabilities and their families and work closely with specialists like occupational therapists and physical therapists to make sure the right equipments are purchased. Asides from approving equipment requests and catering to the needs of individuals with physical disabilities, Chair Advocates is actively involved in promoting disability rights in the New York community and internationally in Kenya.

Chair Advocates first and ongoing project was called Young Wheelers In Need (YWIN) with a focus on teens with physical impairment who are wheelchair-bound ranges from ages 12 to 21. The objective of this project is to raise awareness about available adaptive equipments to promote independence among teens in our community. All YWIN participants are encouraged to advocate for themselves and ask for accommodations whenever needed so they can reach their full potential in school or in the workplace. Other services CA provides include peer mentoring, Starscope newsletter and latest assistive technology updates. So far, Chair Advocates have made many wishes come true by funding for mobility equipments, special assistive aids and adaptive assistive technologies.

On an international scale, Chair Advocates is currently working with AADD (a nonprofit organization in Kenya) on a project called Path To Independence. As a result AADD is able to better serve individuals with disability in Kenya. CA is planning to contribute over a thousand dollars to purchase adaptive equipments for more than 30 PTI members.

As a nonprofit youth venture, we are committed to our cause and look forward to our future years of serving, informing, defending, and inspiring people with physical disability.

For more information regarding Chair Advocates organization and its advocacy projects, please visit our website www.chairadvocates.org.

Foyer sur votre capacité !
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N'importe où nous allons ; les écoles locales visitantes ou interviewer une famille dans le besoin, nous avons essayé notre meilleur pour encourager des personnes dessus ainsi ils peuvent être les meilleurs qu'ils peuvent être. Les avocats de chaise est une entreprise de la jeunesse située à New York préconisant au nom des personnes avec l'éventail d'incapacités physiques. Cette entreprise est venue au sujet de quand un groupe d'étudiants de lycée et d'université a vu le besoin de placement des équipements adaptatifs ou de la technologie assistive dans leur communauté. Le problème fondamental était double ; beaucoup d'étudiants est l'un ou l'autre qui pas à l'aide d'un équipement qu'ils devraient utiliser ou ils utilisent l'équipement faux pour leur type d'incapacité. Les avocats de chaise adressent ces problèmes en offrant l'aide financière aux individus de faible revenu avec des incapacités et leurs familles et travaillent étroitement avec des spécialistes comme des thérapeutes professionnels et des thérapeutes physiques à s'assurer les équipements droits sont achetés. Des apartés des demandes de approbation d'équipement et l'approvisionnement aux besoins des individus avec des incapacités physiques, avocats de chaise est activement impliqués en favorisant des juste d'incapacité dans la communauté de New York et internationalement au Kenya. Nous sommes commis à notre cause et attendons avec intérêt nos futures années de la portion, d'informer, de défendre, et des personnes inspirantes avec l'incapacité physique.

Des avocats de chaise d'abord et le projet continu se sont appelés Young Wheelers dans le besoin (YWIN) avec un foyer les années de l'adolescence avec l'affaiblissement physique qui sont fauteuil-bondissent s'étendent des âges 12 21. L'objectif de ce projet est de soulever la conscience au sujet des équipements adaptatifs disponibles pour favoriser l'indépendance parmi des années de l'adolescence dans notre communauté. Tous les participants de YWIN sont encouragés à préconiser pour eux-mêmes et à demander le logement lorsque nécessaire ainsi ils peuvent atteindre leur pleine capacité à l'école ou dans le lieu de travail. D'autres services que le CA fournit incluent la tutelle de pair, le bulletin de Starscope et les dernières mises à jour assistive de technologie. Jusqu'ici, les avocats de chaise ont fait beaucoup de souhaits venir vrai par le placement pour des équipements de mobilité, des aides assistive spéciales et des technologies assistive adaptatives.

Sur une échelle internationale, les avocats de chaise travaille actuellement avec AADD (une organisation à but non lucratif au Kenya) sur un projet appelé l'indépendance de Path To. En conséquence AADD peut améliorer des individus de service avec l'incapacité au Kenya. Le CA projette contribuer au-dessus d'mille dollars pour acheter les équipements adaptatifs pour plus de 30 membres de PTI.

Comme entreprise sans but lucratif de la jeunesse, nous sommes commis à notre cause et attendons avec intérêt nos futures années de la portion, d'informer, de défendre, et des personnes inspirantes avec l'incapacité physique.

Pour plus d'information concernant l'organisation d'avocats de chaise et ses projets de recommandation, visitez svp notre site Web www.chairadvocates.org.

¡Foco en su capacidad!
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No importa dónde vamos; las escuelas locales que visitaban o entrevistarse con a una familia en necesidad, intentamos nuestro mejor para animar a gente encendido así que pueden ser los mejores que pueden ser. Los abogados de la silla son una empresa de la juventud situada en Nueva York que abogan a nombre de la gente con la amplia gama de inhabilidades físicas. Esta empresa vino sobre cuando un grupo de estudiantes de la High School secundaria y de universidad consideró la necesidad del financiar de equipos adaptantes o de tecnología assistive en su comunidad. El problema subyacente era doble; muchos estudiantes son cualquiera que no usa un equipo que deban utilizar o están utilizando el equipo incorrecto para su tipo de inhabilidad. Los abogados de la silla tratan estos problemas ofreciendo ayuda financiera a los individuos de ingreso bajo con inhabilidades y sus familias y trabajan de cerca con los especialistas como therapists ocupacionales y los therapists físicos a cerciorarse de los equipos derechos se compran. Los apartes de peticiones del equipo que aprueban y el abastecimiento a las necesidades de los individuos con inhabilidades físicas, abogados de la silla está implicados activamente en promover las derechas de la inhabilidad en la comunidad de Nueva York e internacionalmente en Kenia. Estamos confiados a nuestra causa y miramos adelante a nuestros años futuros de la porción, de informar, de defender, y de la gente inspirante con inhabilidad física.

Llamaron los abogados de la silla primero y el proyecto en curso Young Wheelers en la necesidad (YWIN) con un foco el las adolescencias con la debilitación física que son sillón de ruedas-limitan se extienden de las edades 12 a 21. El objetivo de este proyecto es levantar conocimiento sobre equipos adaptantes disponibles para promover independencia entre adolescencias en nuestra comunidad. Se anima a todos los participantes de YWIN que aboguen para sí mismos y pregunten comodidades siempre que estén necesitados tan puedan alcanzar su capacidad máxima en escuela o en el lugar de trabajo. Otros servicios que el CA proporciona incluyen mentoring del par, el boletín de noticias de Starscope y las actualizaciones assistive más últimas de la tecnología. Hasta ahora, los abogados de la silla han hecho que muchos deseos vienen verdad financiando para los equipos de la movilidad, las ayudas assistive especiales y las tecnologías assistive adaptantes.

En una escala internacional, los abogados de la silla están trabajando actualmente con AADD (una organización no lucrativa en Kenia) en un proyecto llamado independencia de Path To. Consecuentemente AADD puede mejorar a individuos del servicio con inhabilidad en Kenia. El CA está planeando contribuir sobre mil dólares para comprar los equipos adaptantes para más de 30 miembros de PTI.

Como empresa no lucrativa de la juventud, estamos confiados a nuestra causa y miramos adelante a nuestros años futuros de la porción, de informar, de defender, y de la gente inspirante con inhabilidad física.

Para más información con respecto la organización de los abogados de la silla y a sus proyectos de la defensa, visite por favor nuestro Web site www.chairadvocates.org.

Fuoco sulla vostra abilità!
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Non importa dove andiamo; scuole locali di visita o intervistare una famiglia nel bisogno, abbiamo provato il nostro la cosa migliore per incoraggiare la gente sopra in modo da possono essere il la cosa migliore che possano essere. I fautori della sedia è un'impresa della gioventù situata a New York che sostengono a nome della gente con vasta gamma delle inabilità fisiche. Questa impresa è venuto circa quando un gruppo degli allievi di università e della High School ha visto l'esigenza del costituire un fondo per delle apparecchiature adattabili o della tecnologia assistive nella loro Comunità. Il problema di fondo era duplice; molti allievi è uno che non per mezzo di un'apparecchiatura che dovrebbero utilizzare o stanno utilizzando l'apparecchiatura errata per il loro tipo di inabilità. I fautori della sedia richiamano questi problemi offrendo il concorso finanziario agli individui bassi di reddito con le inabilità e le loro famiglie e lavorano molto attentamente con gli esperti come i therapists professionali e i therapists fisici da assicurarsi le apparecchiature di destra sono comprati. I oltre alle richieste approvanti dell'apparecchiatura ed approvvigionare ai bisogni degli individui con le inabilità fisiche, fautori della sedia attivamente è coinvolto nella promozione dei diritti di inabilità nella Comunità de New York ed internazionalmente nel Kenia. Siamo impegnati nella nostra causa ed osserviamo in avanti ai nostri prossimi anni del serving, di informazione, difendere e della gente d'ispirazione con l'inabilità fisica.

I fautori della sedia in primo luogo ed il progetto continuo sono stati denominati Young Wheelers nel bisogno (YWIN) con un fuoco sugli anni dell'adolescenza con danno fisico che sono sedia a rotelle-limitano variano dalle età 12 - 21. L'obiettivo di questo progetto è sollevare la consapevolezza circa le apparecchiature adattabili disponibili per promuovere l'indipendenza fra gli anni dell'adolescenza nella nostra Comunità. Tutti i partecipanti di YWIN sono consigliati a sostenere per se stesso e chiedere le sistemazioni quando avuto bisogno di così possono raggiungere la loro piena capacità a scuola o nel posto di lavoro. Altri servizi che CA fornisce includono mentoring del pari, il bollettino di Starscope e gli ultimi aggiornamenti assistive di tecnologia. Finora, i fautori della sedia hanno fatto molti desideri venire allineare costituendo un fondo per per le attrezzature di mobilità, i sussidi assistive speciali e le tecnologie assistive adattabili.

Su una scala internazionale, i fautori della sedia attualmente sta lavorando con AADD (un'organizzazione senza scopo di lucro nel Kenia) su un progetto denominato indipendenza del Path To. Di conseguenza AADD può migliorare gli individui di serv con l'inabilità nel Kenia. Il CA sta progettando contribuire sopra mille dollari per comprare le apparecchiature adattabili per più di 30 membri di PTI.

Come impresa senza scopo di lucro della gioventù, siamo impegnati nella nostra causa ed osserviamo in avanti ai nostri prossimi anni del serving, di informazione, difendere e della gente d'ispirazione con l'inabilità fisica.

Per le più informazioni per quanto riguarda l'organizzazione dei fautori della sedia ed i relativi progetti di avvocatura, visiti prego il nostro Web site www.chairadvocates.org.

Fokus auf Ihrer Fähigkeit!
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Foco em sua abilidade!
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Não importa onde nós vamos; escolas locais visitando ou entrevistar uma família na necessidade, nós tentamos nosso mais melhor cheer sobre povos assim que podem ser os mais melhores que podem ser. Os advogados da cadeira são um risco da juventude situado em New York que advogam em nome dos povos com escala larga de inabilidades físicas. Este risco veio sobre quando um grupo de estudantes de High School e de faculdade viu a necessidade para financiar de equipamentos adaptáveis ou da tecnologia assistive em sua comunidade. O problema subjacente era twofold; muitos estudantes são qualquer um que não usa um equipamento que devam usar ou estejam usando o equipamento errado para seu tipo de inabilidade. Os advogados da cadeira dirigem-se a estes problemas oferecendo o auxílio financeiro aos indivíduos baixos da renda com inabilidades e suas famílias e trabalham-se pròxima com os specialists como therapists ocupacionais e os therapists físicos a certificar-se os equipamentos direitos são comprados. Os apartes dos pedidos aprovando do equipamento e catering às necessidades dos indivíduos com inabilidades físicas, advogados da cadeira são envolvidos ativamente em promover direitas da inabilidade na comunidade de New York e internacional em Kenya. Nós somos cometidos a nossa causa e olhamos para a frente a nossos anos futuros do serving, de informar, de defender, e de povos inspirando com inabilidade física.

Os advogados da cadeira primeiramente e o projeto ongoing foram chamados Novo Wheelers na necessidade (YWIN) com um foco nos teens com impairment físico que são wheelchair-limitam variam das idades 12 21. O objetivo deste projeto é levantar a consciência sobre equipamentos adaptáveis disponíveis para promover a independência entre teens em nossa comunidade. Todos os participants de YWIN são incentivados advogar para se e perguntar para acomodações sempre que necessitado assim podem alcançar seu potencial cheio na escola ou no workplace. Outros serviços que o CA fornece incluem mentoring do par, boletim de notícias de Starscope e os updates assistive os mais atrasados da tecnologia. Assim distante, os advogados da cadeira fizeram muitos desejos vir verdadeiro financiando para equipamentos da mobilidade, dae (dispositivo automático de entrada) assistive especiais e tecnologias assistive adaptáveis.

Em uma escala internacional, os advogados da cadeira estão trabalhando atualmente com AADD (uma organização nonprofit em Kenya) em um projeto chamado independência de Trajeto. Em conseqüência AADD pode melhorar indivíduos do saque com inabilidade em Kenya. O CA está planeando contribuir sobre mil dólares para comprar equipamentos adaptáveis para mais de 30 membros de PTI.

Como um risco nonprofit da juventude, nós somos cometidos a nossa causa e olhamos para a frente a nossos anos futuros do serving, de informar, de defender, e de povos inspirando com inabilidade física.

Para mais informação a respeito da organização dos advogados da cadeira e dos seus projetos do advocacy, visite por favor nosso Web site www.chairadvocates.org.

Fokusera på din kapacitet!
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Ingen materia var vi går; endera besöka lokal skolar, eller intervjua en familj i behov, försökte vi vårt bäst för att hurra på folk, så de kan vara det bäst dem kan vara. Stolförkämpar är ett ungdomföretag som lokaliseras i New York som förespråkar på vägnar av folk med lång räcka av läkarundersökninghandikapp. Detta företag kom om, när en grupp av högstadiet och högskolestudenter sågar behovet för finansiering av lämpliga utrustningar eller assistive teknologi i deras gemenskap. Det bakomliggande problemet var tvåfaldigt; många deltagare är endera som inte använder en utrustning som de bör använda, eller de använder den fla utrustningen för deras typ av handikappet. Stolförkämpar tilltalar dessa problem, genom att erbjuda finansiell hjälp till låga inkomstindivider med handikapp, och deras familjer och arbete nära med lika arbetsterapeuter för specialister och läkarundersökningterapeuter som ser till de högra utrustningarna, inhandlas. Asides från godkännande utrustningförfrågan och att sköta om till behoven av individer med läkarundersökninghandikapp, stolförkämpar är aktivt involverade, i att främja handikapprätter i den New York gemenskapen och internationellt i Kenya. Vi begås till vårt orsakar och ser framåtriktat till våra framtida år av portionen, att informera, försvar och inspirera folk med läkarundersökninghandikapp.

Stolförkämpar först och pågående projekterar kallades Barn Person som drar en skottkärra i behov (YWIN) med en fokusera på tonår med läkarundersökningförsämring som är rullstol-begränsar spänner från åldrar 12 till 21. Mål av detta projekterar är till lönelyftmedvetenheten om tillgängliga lämpliga utrustningar som främjar självständighet bland tonår i vår gemenskap. Alla YWIN-deltagare uppmuntras att förespråka för dem, och att fråga för boenden, när som helst behövt så de kan nå deras fulla potentiellt in, skola eller i arbetsplatsen. Annat servar CA ger inkluderar mentoring för jämlike, det Starscope informationsbladet och senast assistive teknologiuppdateringar. Så långt, har stolförkämpar gjort många wishes att komma riktigt, genom att betala för rörlighetsutrustningar, bistår specialt assistive och lämpliga assistive teknologier.

På ett landskampfjäll är stolförkämpar för närvarande arbetet med AADD (en ideell organisation i Kenya) på en projektera som kallas Bana Till självständighet. Som ett resultat AADD är kompetent att förbättra serveindivider med handikapp i Kenya. CA planerar för att bidra över tusen dollar för att inhandla lämpliga utrustningar för mer än 30 PTI-medlemmar.

Som ett icke-vinstdrivande ungdomföretag begås vi till vårt orsakar och ser framåtriktat till våra framtida år av portionen, att informera, försvar och inspirera folk med läkarundersökninghandikapp.

För mer information angående stol förespråkar organisation, och dess advocacy projekterar, behar besök vår website www.chairadvocates.org.

Фокус на вашей способности!
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No matter where мы идем; или посещая местные школы или интервьюировать семью в потребности, мы попытались наше самое лучшее для того чтобы развеселить людей дальше поэтому они могут быть самыми лучшими, котор они могут быть. Защитники стула будут рискованым начинанием молодости расположенным в нью-йорке защищая именем людей с широкием ассортиментом физической инвалидности. Это рискованое начинание пришло о когда группа в составе студенты старших клаччов средней школы и коллежа увидела потребность для фондировать приспособительных оборудований или assistive технологии в их общине. Основная проблема была двойна; много студентов тем не используя оборудование они должны использовать или они используют неправильное оборудование для их типа инвалидности. Защитники стула приготавливают эти проблемы предлагать финансовую помощь к индивидуалам низкия дохода с инвалидностью и их семьями и работают близко с специалистами как оккупационные therapists и закуплены физические therapists, котор нужно make sure правые оборудования. Резервы от одобряя запросов оборудования и поставлять еду к потребностям индивидуалов с физической инвалидностью, защитников стула активно включаются в повышать права инвалидности в общине нью-йорка и международно в Кении. Мы поручены к нашей причине и смотрим вперед к нашим будущим летам сервировки, сообщать, защищать, и воодушевляя людей с физической инвалидностью.

Защитники стула сперва и осуществляемый проект были вызваны Молод Wheelers в потребности (YWIN) с фокусом на teens с физическим ухудшением кресло-коляск-прыгают колебаются от времен 12 до 21. Задача этого проекта должна поднять осведомленность о имеющихся приспособительных оборудованиях для того чтобы повысить независимость среди teens в нашей общине. Все участники YWIN ободрены защитить для себя и ask for вмещаемости когда после того как я так они могут достигнуть их полный потенциал в школе или в workplace. Другие обслуживания, котор CA обеспечивает вклюают mentoring пэра, информационый бюллетень Starscope и самые последние assistive уточнения технологии. До тех пор, защитники стула сделали много желаний прийти поистине путем фондировать для оборудований удобоподвижности, специальной assistive помощи и приспособительных assistive технологий.

На международном маштабе, защитники стула в настоящее время работают с AADD (бесприбыльная организачии в Кении) на вызванном проекте независимостью Курса К. В результате AADD может улучшать индивидуалов подачи с инвалидностью в Кении. CA планирует способствовать над тысячей долларами для того чтобы закупить приспособительные оборудования для больше чем 30 членов PTI.

Как бесприбыльное рискованое начинание молодости, мы поручены к нашей причине и смотрим вперед к нашим будущим летам сервировки, сообщать, защищать, и воодушевляя людей с физической инвалидностью.

Для больше информации относительно организации защитников стула и своих проектов advocacy, пожалуйста посетите наше web site www.chairadvocates.org.

Nadruk op uw capaciteit!
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Geen kwestie waar wij gaan; of het bezoeken lokale scholen of het interviewen van een familie in behoefte, probeerden wij ons beste aan cheer mensen op zodat kunnen zij het beste zijn zij kunnen zijn. De Verdedigers van de stoel is een de jeugdonderneming die in New York wordt gevestigd bepleitend namens mensen met brede waaier van fysieke onbekwaamheden. Deze onderneming gebeurde toen een groep hoge school en studenten de behoefte aan financiering van aanpassingsmateriaal of assistive technologie in hun gemeenschap zag. Het onderliggende probleem was tweevoudig; vele studenten of gebruikt geen materiaal dat zij zouden moeten gebruiken of zij gebruiken het verkeerde materiaal voor hun type van onbekwaamheid. De Verdedigers van de stoel pakken deze problemen door financiële hulp aan lage gehandicapte aan inkomensindividuen te bieden en hun families en werk dicht met specialisten zoals beroepstherapeuten en fysieke therapeuten worden om het juiste materiaal ervoor te zorgen gekocht. De terloopse opmerkingen van zich het goedkeuren van materiaalverzoeken en het richten op de behoeften van individuen met fysieke handicaps, de Verdedigers van de Stoel is actief betrokken bij het bevorderen van onbekwaamheidsrechten in de gemeenschap van New York en internationaal in Kenia. Wij zijn geëngageerd aan onze oorzaak en verheugen ons op onze toekomstige jaren het dienen, het informeren, het verdedigen, en het inspireren mensen met fysieke handicap.

Project van de Verdedigers van de stoel werd het eerste en aan de gang zijnde genoemd Jonge Speculanten in Behoefte (YWIN) met een nadruk op teens met fysiek stoornis die uitstrekken van leeftijden 12 tot 21 verbindend zijn zich. De doelstelling van dit project is voorlichting over beschikbaar aanpassingsmateriaal op te heffen om onafhankelijkheid onder teens in onze gemeenschap te bevorderen. Alle deelnemers YWIN worden aangemoedigd om voor zich te bepleiten en te vragen om aanpassingen wanneer zo nodig zij hun volledig potentieel in school of in de werkplaats kunnen bereiken. Andere de dienstenCA verstrekt omvat peer hoede, bulletin Starscope en recentste assistive technologieupdates. Tot dusver, hebben de Verdedigers van de Stoel vele wensen gemaakt waar komen door voor mobiliteitsmateriaal, speciale assistive hulp en aanpassings assistive technologieën te financieren.

Voor een internationale schaal, werkt de Verdedigers van de Stoel momenteel met AADD (een organisatie zonder winstbejag in Kenia) aan een project dat Weg aan Onafhankelijkheid wordt genoemd. Dientengevolge kan AADD individuen met handicap in Kenia beter dienen. CA is om over duizend dollars tot aankoop aanpassingsmateriaal voor meer dan 30 leden bij te dragen van plan PTI.

Als de jeugdonderneming zonder winstbejag, zijn wij geëngageerd aan onze oorzaak en verheugen ons op onze toekomstige jaren het dienen, het informeren, het verdedigen, en het inspireren mensen met fysieke handicap.

Voor meer informatie betreffende de organisatie van de Verdedigers van de Stoel en zijn bepleitenprojecten, te bezoeken gelieve onze website www.chairadvocates.org.

بؤرة على قدرتك!
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[نو متّر وهر] يذهب نحن; إمّا يزور مدارس محلّية أو يقابل أسرة في حاجة, حاول نحن نا جيّدة أن يبتهج الناس فوق لذلك هم يستطيع كنت الجيّدة هم يستطيع كنت. كرسي تثبيت محاميات شباب مجازفة يحدث في نيويورك يدافع [أن بهلف وف] الناس مع [ويد رنج] من حالة عجز طبيعيّة. أتى هذا مجازفة حول عندما مجموعة من مدرسة ثانويّة و [كلّج ستثدنت] رأى الحاجة ل يموّل من تجهيزات متكيّف أو تكنولوجيا [أسّيستيف] في جماعتهم. كان المشكلة ضمنيّة مضاعفة; كثير طالبات أحد لا يستعمل تجهيز أيّ هم سوفت كنت استعملت أو هم يكون يستعملون التجهيز خاطئة لنوعهم الحالة عجز. كرسي تثبيت يخاطب محاميات هذا مشاكل ب يقدّم [فيننسل سّيستنس] إلى فردات [لوو ينكم] مع حالة عجز وأسراتهم ويعمل بدقّة مع إختصاصيات مثل [ثربيست] مهنيّة و [ثربيست] طبيعيّة أن يتأكّد ال يصحّ تجهيزات اشتريت. تضمّنت همس من يوافق تجهيز طلبات ويموّن إلى الحاجات الفردات مع حالة عجز طبيعيّة, كرسي تثبيت محاميات بنشاط في يروّج حالة عجز حقوق في نيويورك جماعة ودوليّا في كينيا. نحن ارتكبت إلى سببنا وينظر إلى الأمام إلى سنوننا مقبلة من حصة, يعلم, يدافع, ويلهم الناس مع حالة عجز طبيعيّة.

كرسي تثبيت دعات محاميات أولى ومشروع جارية كان [يوونغ] [وهيلرس] في حاجة ([يوين]) مع بؤرة على مراهقات مع إضعاف طبيعيّة الذي يكون [وهيلشير-بووند] يتراوح من أعمار 12 [تو] 21. الهدف من هذا مشروع أن يرفع حالة وعي حول يتوفّر تجهيزات متكيّف أن يروّج استقلال بين مراهقات في جماعتنا. كلّ [يوين] شجّعت مشتركات أن يدافع ل بنفسي وسألت لتكييف كلّما يحتاج هكذا هم يستطيع بلغت [فولّ بوتنتيل] هم في مدرسة أو في المكان عمل. أخرى يتضمّن خدمات [ك] يزوّد نظير [منتور], [سترسكب] الرسالة الإخباريّة ومتأخّرة [أسّيستيف] تكنولوجيا تحديثات. [س فر], كرسي تثبيت قد جعل محاميات كثير أمنيات أتيت يصحّ ب يموّل لحركية تجهيزات, [أيدس] خاصّة [أسّيستيف] وتكنولوجيا متكيّف [أسّيستيف].

على مقياس دوليّة, كرسي تثبيت يعمل محاميات حاليّا مع [أدّ] ([نونبروفيت ورغنيزأيشن] في كينيا) على مشروع يدعى [بث] [تو] استقلال. [أس ا رسولت] [أدّ] يمكن أن يحسن خدمة فردات مع حالة عجز في كينيا. [ك] يخطّط أن يسهم على ألف دولارات أن يشتري تجهيزات متكيّف لأكثر من 30 [بتي] أعضاء.

كغيرساع للربح شباب مجازفة, ارتكبت نحن إلى سببنا وينظر إلى الأمام إلى سنوننا مقبلة من حصة, يعلم, يدافع, ويلهم الناس مع حالة عجز طبيعيّة.

زرت ل كثير معلومة بخصوص كرسي تثبيت محاميات تنظيم وه تأييد مشاريع, رجاء موقعتنا www.chairadvocates.org.

What if someday being decked from head to toe in the latest trends and carrying around a copy of Vogue could send a message to the world that you are green, sustainable, sweatshop free and committed to helping your community?

Fashion gets criticized for being superficial, but people like Lauren Hope Silverstein see the potential it has to be anything but.

Silverstein, who designs for a leading fashion house, recently met with Reciprocity Foundation's students to discuss green fashion and design.

The general feeling in the room was that while we all want to give back and carefully use our precious natural resources, nobody wants to sacrifice on style, and nobody has to.

For young, homeless designers, this conversation was particularly important. Having experienced so much difficulty, these youth know that in order to feel good about their contributions, they want their work to tell their stories and help others.

The reassurance that designing the perfect pair of jeans has the possibility to send a positive message of awareness and change, and keep the planet healthy, further inspired these already motivated young adults.

Reciprocity has been offering training in green and socially responsible start-ups since 2004, long before the trend truly took off, but as Terry Swack of Sustainable Minds pointed out "the challenge is the lack of accessible, easy to use information that design teams can integrate into their processes to design greener products."

Reciprocity is helping to bridge that gap, and by asking practical questions, Reciprocity students are pushing industry professionals to articulate just how we can all work together to make this trend the standard.

Silverstein, for example, is offering students guidance on portfolios, and recently led a Reciprocity project that resulted in the creation of a chic, eye-catching, green, organic, sweatshop-free tote bag, sales of which benefit programming for homeless youth. Now that is one multi-tasking accessory!

For more information check: www.reciprocityfoundation.org

In 2004, Adam Bucko and Taz Tagore made their vision of social change a reality by creating The Reciprocity Foundation. An award winning nonprofit that specializes in helping homeless and low-income youth permanently exit the social service sector and start sustainable careers, Reciprocity’s innovative curriculum gives youth spiritual, psychological, professional, and educational guidance. Perhaps most importantly, Reciprocity embodies the idea of giving back. By placing special focus on careers in the Creative, Green, and Social Entrepreneurship sectors, the entire Reciprocity community, from students, to employees, to volunteers and corporate leaders, works to embody the idea that in order to be successful, one must work for the betterment of both oneself and one’s community.
Reciprocity awakens individual talents, thereby establishing meaningful relationships and a base that will allow each student to re-enter society from a place of strength, passion, and compassion. Experiential learning is a keystone of Reciprocity, with industry leaders providing both guidance and connections.
Reciprocity’s unique methods of working with homeless and low income youth have been widely featured in the press, reaching over 20 million people with the message that it is possible to transform homeless and lower-income youth into creative leaders and change makers (ABC News, CBS News/Logo, Reuters, CW's America's Next Top Model, New York Times, NY Daily News, Metropolis Magazine, Print Magazine, Yoga+ Magazine, and Gay City News). Reciprocity graduates have landed jobs and internships at major Fortune 500 companies (Martha Stewart Omni media, Chaps Ralph Lauren/Warnaco, Young and Rubicam and America's Next Top Model) and have gained admissions to such leading colleges as Parsons/New School University, Fashion Institute of Technology, Babson College, and City University of New York.

We are currently immersed in the planning of our interactive installation, a conversation on the streets of New York called Street Chat. We are waiting for better weather to bring a critical mass of folks back out onto the streets and are aiming to release Street Chat to New York City in early summer, 2009.

In the meantime, we are researching ways to ensure our project welcomes the public and brainstorming the perfect questions to include on our list to give to participants. We've been focusing on the design of the platform for conversation, emphasizing a piece which is both functional and inviting as well as aesthetically pleasing.

Although it may seem as if Street Chat relies heavily on chance by asking the public to take part, we are working to ensure every detail of the project is scrutinized so it will inspire two strangers to feel the freedom to open their hearts to one another.

The second part of our project is a film created from the footage of the street installation. Our goal is to edit the footage ourselves, allowing us to have more creative control over the final film and construct a more authentic record of our project in line with our original vision. Therefore, as part of our preparation we have been honing our video editing skills and acquiring the necessary equipment to do this work.

Look for Street Chat in early summer 2009 on the streets of NYC!

The Rediscover Your Heart award was exactly what we needed to jump-start our drop-in dinner series. We started hosting drop-in dinners a few years back when we first moved to Brooklyn to meet our neighbors and friends. The idea was straightforward – every other Monday night we cooked and friends and neighbors were welcome to drop by and bring their friends. We never knew who or how many people would show up, but we wanted to create a space where people could feel free to drop in on good food, good people, and good conversation. We wanted to inspire others to host nights as well, but it never quite took off and eventually we stopped hosting.


We always felt that there was something special that happened when people came over to break bread with others. In New York City as in many urban centers, apartments are small and most people go out to socialize. In addition, most people are hyper-scheduled with multiple events, places to go and people to see. They don’t necessarily cook or use their home as a gathering place. What we envisioned is that we let our friends and their friends know that our house will be open on a regular basis – no need to RSVP or plan, if they happen to be in the neighborhood or have a free night or just feel the need for some community or good food, they can come by.


After we received the award, we realized that we needed to revamp the way that we host drop-in dinners. For one thing, we now have a cute young baby, who would not be so happy with dinners that last late into the night. So we decided to switch it up to brunch and to host less frequently. The second thing is that we really want to encourage others to host nights as well. Our big dream is that we inspire so many people that we develop a community in which at least one person is hosting a drop-in dinner every night so that there is always somewhere to go for good company. With the award money, we are trying to provide a little seed money as incentive for others to host events. We have asked our guests for their thoughts on what it means to cultivate a drop-in culture and we will fund at least 10 individuals to host a regular series that will hopefully inspire their guests to host as well.

These pictures are from a recent event – we collected books for prisoners. We ate good food, gathered over 300 quality books, and enjoyed lively debates about the literary merits of various books. Our challenge now is to think about the frequency of gatherings (to make it truly drop-in, we should be hosting every other week, but we’ve only been doing it monthly which makes it more of an “event” versus an informal get-together) and the number of people (at a recent event we had 35 people – which is vibrant and stimulating but we realize is too many to generate quality conversations and connections). So our conception of what a drop-in culture can be continues to evolve.

We’d love to hear your thoughts…

Last spring I received an award from Rediscover your Heart. I was so happy that I would be able to further my work with LinkEducation (my organization that helps parents and teachers in New York City to find education programs for their students).

Thanks to the Rediscover your Heart award we were able to hold our first Education Expo. It was an event that brought education programs (like art classes, yoga, after school programs, and tutoring) into one room so that parents could find programs for their kids, and so teachers and principals could find low cost or free programs to improve their school.

This first expo turned out to be a huge success! We co-hosted it with the New York City Department of Education, 300 parents and teachers attended, and had so many organizations who wanted to present that we ran out of room!

It was such a success that we are now going to do it twice a year! We have our next expo coming up this April 25th. We have a bigger space so we can now fit 100 booths, and we hope that even more parents and teachers will come this year.

Check out the information on our next expo here: http://www.linkeducation.org/spring_educationexpo

And check out pictures from our last expo here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/LinkEducation/AnnualEducationExpo

Threads That Teach aims to help fundraise for inner city public school arts education programs, specifically in New York City. Myself being a product of public school education going on to pursue a career in the arts, it is important to me that future generations have the same opportunities that I had. In recent years, the U.S. government has cut down on the educational budgets allotted for public school education. As a result of these budget cuts, the schools have began to focus more and more on academic subjects that are measured through standardized testing and have cut a significant amount of funding allotted to more creative courses. The arts programs in public schools are slowly shrinking and the resources available to students are less than adequate. The goal of the Threads That Teach Public School Program is to have the students attending these schools help restore their own arts programming budgets through fashion art fundraisers. We do this by bringing in volunteers from local colleges and universities to teach lesson plans covering fashion design, marketing, sales, money management, and entrepreneurship. Through these lessons students are able to create and sell apparel as a fundraiser for the arts program at their respective school.

The Rediscover Your Heart Award has provided our organization with the extra funding needed to expand our programming. This is our first semester operating in two schools at once. Each school has its own unique goal for the program, and thus we have designed two very different curriculums. At one school we are teaching our original curriculum in 3 general education and 2 special education visual arts classes. This curriculum has the students designing the artwork to be printed onto the apparel, but the printing process is then outsourced. At our second school we have created a more hands-on curriculum with a small group of after-school program participants. These students not only sketch the designs to be put onto the apparel, but they also create the apparel itself. Each item is hand-sewn and decorated by the students. This is a new type of curriculum that we would not have had the resources to experiment with if it were not for the Rediscover Your Heart Award. The students seem to really enjoy the complete process of sketching, sewing, and decorating the apparel. Our volunteers also find the change in programming to be refreshing and fun. One volunteer in particular has mentioned that the “arts and crafts type aspect” of the after-school projects make her “feel like a kid again.”

As our program continues to grow, my commitment to our mission only grows stronger. I am constantly working to revise our lesson plans through extensive research of innovative processes used in other educational programs to teach similar concepts. As our volunteer database expands, the recruitment process is getting easier due to anecdotes reporting positive experiences being passed along on college campuses. We recently even had a new school approach us with interest in participating in our program next fall. The visual arts teacher at the school heard about our program from a friend and contacted me via e-mail through our website. The self-promotion of our public school program is extremely motivating and I look forward to seeing how our organizational will grow and evolve over time.