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Stories from the field

Program updates and moments from community visits, written by the team.

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18 hours ago

Twenty-Five Years of a Common Language: What Has the ICF Given the Global Inclusion Movement?

For decades, the files of persons with disabilities in our clinics and institutions told a single story: the story of what a person 'lacks'. A diagnosis, a degree of impairment, a list of…

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2 days ago

Fish Don’t Talk About Water: Why Good Programmes Fail, and We Never Know Why

When a carefully designed programme falters, our first instinct is always the same: we look for a flaw in implementation. The training was weak. The team was stretched. The funding arrived…

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4 days ago

Managing Change: Why We Start With What We Assume, Not What We Plan

We talk about "managing change" as though change were a machine — switch it on, steer the wheel, and it goes where we want. After more than two decades in the field, from the villages of…

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2 weeks ago

A morning at Jusoor Beni Suef

Kicked off the day at the Jusoor community center in Beni Suef. Watching a local team run their own intake sessions, unsupervised, was the whole point of this network from day one.

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2 weeks ago

Small accessibility fixes that change everything

Spent the afternoon reviewing accessibility audits from three of our partner sites. Small fixes — ramp gradients, signage height, doorway clearances — but they add up to whether someone…

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CBR Regional Advisor · 2 weeks ago

A savings program built around real barriers, not assumptions

Three pilot branches in Beni Suef adapted teller windows, forms, and appointment flows after CBR teams mapped what was actually stopping people from opening accounts.ok

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2 weeks ago

A note on language

A short note on language: we still catch ourselves saying "wheelchair-bound" in draft reports. Small edits like this matter — people use wheelchairs, they are not bound by them. Thanks to…

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2 weeks ago

Behind the scenes of a training day

A few frames from today's facilitation training. The best moments never make it into the official report — like this one, mid-laugh, mid-roleplay.

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2 weeks ago

On patience as a program design principle

Someone asked me this week why our timelines always look longer than funders expect. Because community trust does not compress to fit a grant cycle, and pretending otherwise is how…

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3 weeks ago

Closing circle, Beni Suef cohort

Every cohort ends the same way: a closing circle where people say out loud what they are taking back to their own communities. Never gets old.

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