Youth voices concern for the disabled

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The National, Monday 21st November 2011

By SALLY POKITON
YOUTHS with disabilities have the right to live a normal and independent life just like other people, Young Voice project secretary Ruth Javati says.
Javati, 23, from Kainantu in Eastern Highlands, was enrolled at the Divine Word University in 2007 as a health extension studies student but was unable to return to school because the environment was not wheelchair friendly. 
Since leaving studies in 2007, she is now an active member of the Young Voice project, a programme made up of youths aged between 13 and 25 who have disabilities.
The project, supported by the Leonard Cheshire Disability Services, is aimed at achieving equality and accessibility to education and for disabled youths to have a right to use services provided by the government to live a normal life.