Living With Disability

Themed “Love Your Feet, Adios Diabetes”, the annual run, organised for the fourth time by Subang Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC), was aimed at raising awareness of diabetes and its complications.

It was heartening to see the determination and spirit displayed by visually impaired athletes while playing goalball. And unlike other sports, they played in silence during the ninth edition of the Piala Datuk Bandar national goalball championship.

Fresh air and a serene view are all it takes for the able-bodied and the disabled to connect with each other during the Penang Peace Run 2019.

It was good news for a deaf teacher, who has been granted leave by the Education Ministry to do his doctorate in the United States. Lee Tur Chung (pic) of SM Pendidikan Khas Vokasional obtained a one-year scholarship under the Fulbright Foreign Student Programme to pursue a PhD in deaf education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Makeup artist Noney Gondolos, 50, inspires others with her grit and hard work. Despite being born with muscle dystrophy and brittle bones, the single mother-of-two from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, does not have a pessimistic view of life.

The inaugural Art Includes Festival 2019 in Kuala Lumpur is on a mission to showcase disability arts and culture. The festival, which runs at the Ruang by Think City venue on Sept 23-29, underlines the need for diversity when it comes to the social, cultural and professional development of people with disabilities.

A chance meeting at a para sports event in 2015 between two paraplegics from Johor Baru proved that maybe, nothing really happens by chance.

One of the delegates, Kenyan student Whitney Ngigi, 21, from the United States International University, said she was attending to seek ideas on how to help those who were physically challenged.

Japan’s Diet convened Thursday after elections and a renovation at the upper house to improve its accessibility for two new lawmakers who use wheelchairs.

The celebration of strength, courage and love of cancer survivors will be the theme of the Relay For Life Kuala Lumpur (RFLKL) 2019, the signature fundraising event for the National Cancer Society Malaysia (NCSM).