Wiki for Minorities/Disabili-Ties Programme/Visibilizing Disabilities in Nigeria

The Visibilizing Blindness in Nigeria is a project within the Wiki for Minorities (WfMin) programme aimed at expanding the existing content in Wikimedia projects about people with disabilities (PWD) in Nigeria.

By creating articles, searching for information and taking photographs, users want to raise awareness about the challenges presented by people who suffer from some type of any kind of disability within the Nigerian territory. For expamle, according to reports from 2023, there are more than one million blind people in Nigeria, in addition to the around 7 million who suffer from some visual impairment.

Details

Activities will take place throughout the year and may be online, in-person and hybrid. The work areas are mainly Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

Activities

Online Editathon: a series of Editathon sessions focused on different topics of disabilities in Nigeria:
- Education and disability
- Accessibility for disabled people
- Notable Nigerians with disabilities
- Organizations based in Nigeria dedicated to the people with disabilities
- Social inclusion of people with disabilities
- Sports and disability in Nigeria

First round of editathons between April and June 2024.

Wikimedian volunteer

Organizers

The project is led by volunteer Glory Onwuka (Username: Onwuka Glory) who can answer all your questions and concerns.

Participants

Strong support Igallards7 (talk) 00:47, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]