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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;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Talofa all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Please find international day tentative program for Samoa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In edition to the identified activities,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Samoa blind persons association are already discussing a campaign with one of the telephone companies based on the theme the future of technology is accessible, appealing to bluesky to provide 5 smart phone for members and we will utilise members of the organisation who completed trainings in accessible softwares to conduct a training for members on how to use these phone to access communication <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> PDFlist [mailto:pdflist-bounces@lists.pacificdisability.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Villaney Remengesau<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 21 November 2019 1:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> Setareki Macanawai; Laisa Vereti; Kata; Raveen Chand; Angeline Chand; Mereoni Daveta<br><b>Cc:</b> Dpo-officemanagers@lists.pacificdisability.org; pdf-members@lists.pacificdisability.org; pdflist@lists.pacificdisability.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [PDFlist] International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear CEO Seta:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Your email is noted with thanks. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In Palau, the discussions have started late October 2019 with planning kicking off on Nov 5 and meetings every week. As we are using the already existing mechanisms, the Palau CBID Consortium and Palau Healthcare Coalition are sharing resources and working closely together to plan and lead programs and activities to commemorate this day. The following are the 2019 IDPD events for all of us in Palau. Funding for this week events are all local resources. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2019 IDPD Events</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-eop><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Nov 15 OMEKESANG Membership Training</span></span><span class=gmail-eop><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> - complete</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-eop><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Nov 23 Car Wash Fundraising </span></span><span class=gmail-eop><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-eop><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dec 2 Disability Partners Radio </span></span><span class=gmail-spellingerror><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Talkshow</span></span><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> by 2019 IDPD Planning Committee to layout IDPD week activities</span></span><span class=gmail-eop><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span class=gmail-eop><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Local newspapers publications on success stories of people with intellectual disabilities</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dec 3 OMEKESANG General Membership Meeting and IDPD Parade</span></span><span class=gmail-eop><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> event</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-eop><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Public Library Read Aloud Program on Raising Awareness on Disability </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dec 4 Disability Stakeholders Training</span></span><span class=gmail-eop><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>***mapping of CRPD implementation using the Palau CBID and Disability Situational Analysis Report and Palau VNR Report 2019</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dec 5 TV </span></span><span class=gmail-spellingerror><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>show</span></span><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> @ TMC by PNOC, MOH, and PPE, and OMEKESANG</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-eop><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>***raising awareness on disability and Youth for Inclusion, Special Olympics Program, Palau</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-eop><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dec 6 OMEKESANG Hour, Radio Talkshow </span></span><span class=gmail-eop><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=gmail-paragraph style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=gmail-normaltextrun><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dec 7 Disability Family Day</span></span><span class=gmail-eop><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>***special luncheon party to commemorate and close the 2019 IDPD long week events</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PDF members, please share with us and the PDF Secretariat of your activities to celebrate the Dec. 3 2019, International Day of Persons with Disabilities. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kind regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lany</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 03:55, Setareki Macanawai <<a href="mailto:CEO@pacificdisability.org" target="_blank">CEO@pacificdisability.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-NZ>International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-NZ>Tuesday, 03 December 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ>Theme: “Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ>Drawing on the information provided by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) UN Enable website, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) has been annually observed since 1992 around the world on 3 December each year. The theme for this 2019 IDPD is ‘Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ>The theme focuses on the empowerment of persons with disabilities for inclusive, equitable and sustainable development as envisaged in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which pledges to ‘leave no one behind’ and recognizes disability as a cross-cutting issues, to be considered in the implementation of its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ>Observance of the IDPD at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA will consist of an official opening, a panel discussion on new initiatives for disability inclusion, and a spotlight event on the theme of ‘Sport for all for peace and development’, which will be the opportunity to discuss sport as a powerful enabler of peace and sustainable development through the empowerment of persons with disabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ>PDF office in Suva is holding a half-day seminar in partnership with UNDP Pacific and Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat to mark IDPD 2019. Please share with us how your organisation is planning to celebrate this day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ>Seta<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Setareki S. 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