People with disabilities are encouraged to register with the Social Welfare Department to reap the benefits. Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Hannah Yeoh said the numbers in the register were inaccurate because registration was not compulsory.

Their first meeting ended up with talented artist Louis Gan Yee Loong surprising Lean Ong Hui Lian with her portrait as a birthday gift in 2011. It didn’t take long before they became an item after that.

Ipoh-born Wong Hung Fai is determined to realise his dream of conquering the Straits, one of the busiest and most treacherous shipping lanes in the world. What makes this aspiration so amazing is the fact that this affable 28-year-old is disabled. Blind from birth, he’s determined to make his presence felt when he joins other swimmers this weekend for the ultimate swim across the Straits of Melaka, covering a distance of about 40 to 50km.

For Chan Moi Chin, Persatuan Kebajikan untuk Kanak-Kanak Istimewa Kampung Perting is where her 37-year-old son can learn to socialise and pick up self-care skills.

Hak murid-murid pendidikan khas dalam negara ini tidak sesekali akan diketepikan, tegas Menteri Pendidikan Maszlee Malik.

Objektif utama setiap bakal haji yang berada di sini pastinya menziarah makam Rasulullah, beribadat di dalam Raudhah di Masjid Nabawi serta melawat perkuburan Baqi’ dan Bukit Uhud, namun bukan semua berkeupayaan melakukannya kerana berdepan dengan masalah kesihatan.

A cafe which employs staff with disabilities has been opened at the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry in Putrajaya.

Malvika Iyer was a charming 13-year-old girl in 2002 when a grenade accidentally blew up in her hands, ripping her forearm and paralysing her legs, in Bikaner, Rajasthan, where she lived with her parents.

The kids couldn’t be stopped. Bubble wrap laid out on the floor burst in loud pops under the tires of kids zooming by in motorized cars outfitted with harnesses and joysticks Saturday in a downtown Northwestern University office.

Advocates for the disabled are pushing back against a proposed law to ban plastic straws in New York City, claiming environmentalists and city officials ignored their needs when crafting the legislation which is currently under review in the City Council.