HAO, an international NGO, promotes services that visibly enhance the quality of life of people labeled disabled; their families and their communities through individualised approachs.
HAO believes in working in partnership with local authorities in host countries.
HAO supports a rights-based approach to disability service provision and in the promotion of independence, community participation and social integration.
HAO is committed to the social model of disability, which places a person's disability in the context of the social and environment factors which create disabling barriers to their participation in society.
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