MESSAGE

Abstract

Since I took up the challenge of leading DPA for the last four years, many things happened within the Asia-Pacific Region that we have missed out on and we still have a long way to go. I also learned more about our Regional Organization and in particular, finding out about the struggles, commitments and hardships that our self-help groups have to go through in order to achieve our millennium goals and objectives. This is particularly so with the extension of the Decade for Persons with Disability from 2003 to 2012.

John Suran