ELLIE'S BLOG on Living Well with Disability

"Making the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) disability-inclusive: Empowerment of persons with   disabilities and their communities around the world"

                                                            "I'll sing songs,speak on it and sing about it" 

Stevie Wonder (the new UN Messenger of Peace) at the opening ceremony of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec 3, 2009.

In accepting his new role he stated that he understood the difficulties of people with disabilities and that he wanted to expand their possibilities. Two of the areas he mentioned he would like to help with were:1. lower prices for the technology that is so helpful to those with disabilities and 2.making it easier for them to travel.

For more information on the International Commitment of the United Nations to the people of the world with disabilities go to:

.http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1484 

And here in upstate New York 1/2 hour from my home is an indirect outcome of the world's commitment locally.

                                      "FLAME" 

                       "Our disability will not stop us ." "We keep going and the

                       more we keep going ,we want more people to see what we do."

The only touring band in the world to be wholly composed of disabled members is an international success.  These band members live with conditions that include Downs syndrome, cognitive delays, autism, cerebral palsy and blindness.  For more information on this remarkable group go to:  http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/disabled-musicians-make-band-flame/story?id=9184434&page=1

and then check out their website  http://www.flametheband.com/bio.cfm

What a Christmas present for the soul! They bring hope and joy through their great rock music to so many and in return receive so much.

                                                       Ellie