WELCOME TO LNFOD

Established in 1989, the Lesotho National Federation of Organisations of the Disabled (LNFOD) was legally registered as an umbrella body of organisations dealing with disability in Lesotho, in 1991.
 
Its mission is to protect the rights of people with disabilities Lesotho by providing support for disabled people’s Organizations and empowering their members with life-skills, financial and material resources and representing their needs to the government, development partners and wider society.

Its membership consists of the Lesotho National Association of Physically Disabled Persons (LNAPD), Intellectual Disability Association of Lesotho (IDAL), Lesotho National League of the Visually Impaired Persons (LNLVIP) and National Association of the Deaf in Lesotho (NADL). 
 
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Lesotho Commits to Meaningful Inclusion Principles during Census 2016 processes 
The department agreed to design data collection tool on disability in collaboration with LNFOD so as to ensure that disability data is accurate and meaningful to the betterment of the lives of people with disabilities. That will be improving the collection tool that was used in 2006 in an effort to minimise the errors. The department will also ensure greater involvement PWDs at every stage of the process through appointment of LNFOD representative in the census committees. These committees will be established this year, between April and June 2014. These agreements were made in the lobbying meeting between LNFOD and the Bureau of Statistics earlier this month.
For the details of the meeting please click here to read our press release.

ADVERTISEMENT-Advocacy & Human Rights Officer 
Lesotho National Federation of Organizations of the Disabled intends to fill the position of Advocacy&Human Rights Officer.   Applications are requested from suitable candidates. Curriculum vitae and certified copies of educational qualifications plus list of addresses of three (3) referees should be to LNFOD on or before Friday, 25th April 2014 at 13H30. 
Please Click here for full Details.

OTHER NEWS

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THE FIRST EVER LESOTHO CONTINENTAL ROUND TABLE 2013

 Lesotho hosted a successful first ever Continental Round Table where representatives of fifteen (15) Continental and six (6) National Disabled Persons Organisations from across the continent of Africa, four (4) African Governments and five (5) Development Partners, convened in Maseru, Lesotho, under the auspices of the Secretariat of African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (SADPD), from 1st to 4th December 2013 to reflect and discuss on the theme “BREAK BARRIERS, OPEN DOORS FOR AN INCLUSIVE SOCIETY FOR ALL”.           
Click here for a detailed Continental Round Table 2013 Communique
Open Letter to the Minister of Social Development Breaks  the Ice 

Lesotho National Federation Of Organisations of the Disabled (LNFOD) successfully released the open letter to the Honourable Minister of Social  Development on the 10th September 2013 to all our stakeholders, development partners’ people with disabilities and the public at  large.
For more information about the content of this letter, please refer to the Informative newspaper dated 10th September 2013.
Click here for full details on the article.


Women with Disability rock the Thahameso show for Women's Month!

Watch the Thahameso Show on Lesotho TV on
Friday30th August for a special program looking at inspirational women with a disability.