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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fyi.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> survey-noreply@hr.surveymonkeyuser.com [mailto:survey-noreply@hr.surveymonkeyuser.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>globalpartnersunited@gmail.com via surveymonkey.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 11 December 2017 7:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> fhallbentick@optusnet.com.au<br><b>Subject:</b> Invitation: UNESCO Final Disability Recognition & Empowerment Survey - YOUR Opinion Makes a Difference<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr style='height:20.0pt'><td colspan=5 style='background:#183D68;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:20.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=20 style='width:10.0pt;background:#183D68;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=20 style='width:10.0pt;background:#183D68;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='background:#183D68;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;text-shadow:-1px -1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2)'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white;letter-spacing:.75pt'>A UNESCO Proposed Global Initiative: Recognizing Exceptional Accomplishment Among Persons with Disabilities & Best Empowerment Practices <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=20 style='width:10.0pt;background:#183D68;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=20 style='width:10.0pt;background:#183D68;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:20.0pt'><td colspan=5 style='background:#183D68;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:20.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:5.0pt'><td colspan=5 style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td colspan=3 valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'>Dear colleague,</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is engaged in designing a program methodology to nominate and select annually approximately 100 persons with disabilities/differing abilities who have accomplished life goals that reflect empowering factors to overcome the barriers to personal and career development. We would appreciate learning your perspective as a stakeholder concerned with equitable access to the global economy, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) advocacy and implementation, technology accessibility, universal design and accommodations, inclusion in early childhood development and education, healthcare and habilitation, sports, the arts, employment, assistive devices, entrepreneurship, and more. </span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It is UNESCO's intent to share the life journeys of those selected, as well as analyze and disseminate best practices that persons with disabilities individually and collectively adopt to mitigate barriers to fulfilling their destinies across a wide range of sectors. Your survey input as to the planning and desired outcomes for the UNESCO project (more fully described in the introduction to the survey) would add significant value.</span></strong><br><br><em><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Some of you were asked to review a draft of the survey in November and provided excellent comments for modifications and additions. Please feel free to complete this survey as some of the questions have been modifed, new answer choices are available, and additional brief identifying questions added.</span></b></em><br><br><strong><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please click on the link below to complete and reply no later than Friday, December 15, 2017 at midnight Eastern US time</span></u></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. If others are interested in providing input, please have them contact me at </span></strong><em><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:globalpartnersunited@gmail.com"><span style='font-style:normal'>globalpartnersunited@gmail.com</span></a></span></b></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. <u>It does not work to forward the link</u>. I need to input each person's contact email; in this way, the data compilation and analytic tools work for analyzing the survey results. </span></strong><b><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If you have any questions or difficulties accessing the survey, please contact me by email or phone below (the survey is offered only in English currently). In advance, thanks very much for your valued participation and feedback.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>With best regards and wishes for a holiday season for those celebrating,</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Evelyn Cherow, MA, MPA </span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CEO/Founder</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GlobalPartnersUnited</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>5805 Melvern Drive</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bethesda, MD 20817 USA</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1-301-807-1247 (cell)</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:globalpartnersunited@gmail.com"><span 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