Two matches for the ICRC T20 Cricket Tournament for People with Physical Disabilities were played at the venue on Tuesday.

The Gazipur Glorious Disable Cricket Club batted first, posting a score of 99-5 at the end of the 20 overs. But their opponents, Dhaka’s CRP Physically Challenged Cricket Team, took the win, reaching the target with seven wickets to spare.

“My children are not broken,” Amy Wright insists.

Most parents don’t have to declare their children’s fundamental value, but after two of 2017 CNN Hero of the Year Amy Wright’s kids were born with Down syndrome, it was clear that she would have to back them up every step of the way.

Single mother Lee Ah Lan, 81, has been caring for her only surviving son Loh Suan Keng, 61, who is bedridden with stroke and other illnesses.

Her daily duties involve having to clean him, change his adult diapers, change the soiled bedding and feed him.

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A DISABLED man working as a security guard was shocked to find that the Welfare Department would stop his monthly subsistence payments because he earned a little extra at his job, Makkal Osai reported. S. Balakrishnan said he was working as a security guard at a factory in Sungai Petani, Kedah, for the past 15 years to support his ailing wife.

The PwD Seminar, hosted by the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and held at the Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre on 7 December, succeeded in consolidating interests around and adding fresh impetus to the quest for seeking quantitative and qualitative solutions for people living with disabilities.

CYCLE & Carriage Bintang Bhd in Batu Caves may have the best spray paint specialists in the country who just happen to be deaf-mute.

Both Ahmad Hamzah, 57, and Ravi Chandran Balakrishnan, 52, have served the company for 38 and 34 years respectively.

HOSPITAL Sungai Buloh is proud of several former patients who have successfully undergone rehabilitation to achieve success as Paralympians and entrepreneurs.

The hospital celebrated the International Day of Persons With Disability to recognise them for being role models and an inspiration to others.

Mohd Firdaus Abdul Latif was pursuing a course to repair air-conditioners in 2004 when he was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident. He was riding home to Tanjung Malim after classes when he was hit by a vehicle near Templer’s Park in Selayang. In 2015, he enrolled in Maybank Foundation’s Reach Independence and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Programme (RISE) and learnt the many aspects of doing business.