Rising Tides, Raising Voices
Project Host
Disability Justice Project
Revenue
$250,000
Charity Number
We are fiscally sponsored by the Center for Independent Documentary: 04-2738458
Project aims
The project addresses the critical intersection of climate change, disability, and Indigenous rights through a comprehensive approach encompassing awareness, community engagement, and advocacy. Long-term goals focus on systemic change through the adoption of disability-inclusive disaster preparedness and climate resilience policies.
Project description
The award-winning Disability Justice Project (DJP) trains human rights defenders with disabilities in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific in documentary storytelling and is the first media platform in the world dedicated to disability rights in global majority nations. The escalating climate emergency has starkly revealed and intensified the pre-existing disparities and susceptibilities faced by people with disabilities, particularly in the Pacific, where there is no escape from rising coastal waters and extreme weather events. As part of a legacy of systemic oppression, Indigenous Pacific Islanders with disabilities are particularly at risk. Because they are less likely to be formally employed, their livelihoods depend on fishing and farming – now under threat by climate change. During disasters, the structural barriers that Pacific Islanders with disabilities face every day – like the lack of accessible information and transportation – can become a death sentence. To address this critical issue, we are training disabled, Indigenous activists from Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, and the Solomon Islands in documentary storytelling to produce a feature-length film. The process will be deeply co-creative, working with the activists and other stakeholders to draft a joint and equitable project design mapping out ownership and editorial control.
Contact name
Jody Santos
Phone
6177973133
Email
jsantos@disabilityjusticeproject.org
Website
https://disabilityjusticeproject.org/
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