#disability

🇺🇸 United States · Blue Star Recyclers

A Colorado nonprofit recycler where most employees are autistic or otherwise disabled, proving ethical e-waste recycling and inclusive employment go hand in hand.

🇺🇸 United States · Camphill Village Copake

America's oldest Camphill community, where adults with developmental disabilities live, farm, and garden together on a 750-acre biodynamic homestead in New York's Hudson Valley.

🇵🇭 Philippines · Dwellbeing

A Manila social enterprise run entirely by a Deaf team, turning discarded bottles, jars, and fabric into home and wellness goods that keep waste out of landfills.

🇮🇱 Israel · Ecology for a Protected Community (אקולוגיה לקהילה מוגנת)

A Galilee e-waste recycling company where three in four employees have a physical, cognitive, or sensory disability, turning discarded electronics into dignified careers.

🇹🇻 Tuvalu · Fusi Alofa Association Tuvalu

Tuvalu's only organisation run by and for people with disabilities is building the nation's first inclusive classrooms, one atoll at a time.

🇿🇦 South Africa · BirdLife South Africa

South Africa's Albatross Task Force trains trawler and longline crews to fit simple bird-scaring lines that have slashed albatross deaths at sea.

🇦🇺 Australia · Sweltering Cities

Australian rentals must have a working smoke alarm but not a bearable temperature, so a home can legally hit 40°C inside and the tenant has no recourse.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Nyatike Mirema Community Forest Association

A community-led reforestation drive in western Kenya where widows and people with disabilities earn a living growing tree seedlings instead of begging.

🇺🇸 United States · Paradox Sports

A Colorado nonprofit founded by a disabled Iraq war veteran that trains climbing gyms nationwide in adaptive techniques and takes climbers with disabilities on world-class rock and ice trips.

🇿🇦 South Africa · The Chaeli Campaign

Founded by a nine-year-old wheelchair user who asked her community to fund one, the Chaeli Campaign now runs inclusive early-childhood, arts, and advocacy programmes for thousands of South African children with disabilities.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Trust Links

Seven community gardens across Essex use hands-in-the-soil horticulture as frontline mental health support for thousands of people a year.