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Global Disability Rights Library
ORGANIZATIONAL SPOTLIGHT • By Nancy Henderson
Several years ago, while corresponding with an African man with a hearing impairment, Andrea Shettle learned just how difficult it is for someone with a disability in a developing country to connect with his peers. “He told me that it was usually easier for him to communicate with people in Europe or the U.S. via e-mail than it was to communicate with fellow deaf leaders just 25 miles away, because not only did they not have e-mail but there was limited phone access for deaf people in his country,” recalls Shettle, program manager for the Global Disability Rights Library (GDRL). “The situation is still largely similar for many people in that country and other countries today because Internet connectivity is still so rare in many sub-Saharan African and South Asian countries.”
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