After “Capacity Building for Self-Help Organization of PWDs” training conducted by Asia Pacific development Center on Disability (APCD) in Bangkok, Thailand, two disabled trainees shared their training experiences to other disabled at AAR (Japan) on 11th November 2003. At that sharing, all of participants who are disabled agreed that there should be formed a Self-help group of disabled people in Myanmar, so that they established immediately a SHG of disabled persons after that sharing. The name, RPDG was nominated at the first annual meeting of them group which was held on Oct-30, 2004. the more meaning full name, Disabled People’s Development Organization, DPDO was changed by monthly meeting held on 29th November, 2008. On 27th June, 2009, the 1st DPDO Office was opened.

OBJECTIVES

• To empower each other, to have unity among them in order to build better spiritual value of disabled persons and to solve various facing problems by means of group activities.
• To develop the independent living life-style of disabled persons by raising abilities and rights of them.
• To reveal, solve and remove all of barriers that could be impeded inclusion of disabled people within society.
• To obtain full participation in all of community sectors by accepting them competence.
• To implement disability related actions, projects and other enterprises which are aimed to develop all disabled fields led by disabled persons themselves.
• To cooperate with other organizations in order to develop educational, social, health and economic conditions of disabled persons.
• To promote the leading role of self-help groups of disabled persons in Myanmar.