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Rediscover Your Heart Awards of $2,500 were given to 12 inspiring and aspiring individuals and groups in New York City with creative, innovative and heartfelt projects. The chosen projects were selected for being empowering and replicable, and for contributing towards a more functional and peaceful society by improving the community or the lives of people living in it.

The Awards were offered by The Fred Foundation, in collaboration with the Global Youth Action Network and Chat the Planet. Please read this blog to learn more about the awardees, and the progress they are making on their individual projects!

To learn more about the awards, the book and the author, please visit the Rediscover Your Heart website.



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Focus on your ability!
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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.


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