Celebrating the difference
Sunera Foundation’s 20-year journey to change
societal prejudices:
We live in a severely ‘disabled society’ where
children are brutally raped and murdered, where killing is
commonplace, where society angrily demands the reinstatement of the
death penalty, and vengeance seems to be the driving force. In this
context, the question that arises is, is it fair to marginalize only
a group of people and call them ‘disabled’ when society as a whole
appear to be ‘disabled’? This is a divide the Sunera
Foundation, has been trying to bridge for the last 20 years. A
none-profit organization, Sunera’s mission and enormous challenge
has been to integrate persons living with disability into
communities of their peers and the broader Sri Lankan society.
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