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IDIRIYA,〔(IDIRIYA on a national mission ), The Island news, Retrieved on 28 November 2008〕 is a not-for-profit registered humanitarian organisation focusing on disability rights that fully understands ''disability related access issues'' that affect a wide range of people in day-to-day life that concerns even their safety and physical, mental, economical and social well being. IDIRIYA was born from its founder’s passion for creating an environment that is accessible to all with dignity, regardless of the degree of physical ability. Based in Sri Lanka, IDIRIYA comprises a group of professionals in diverse fields who offer their expertise and follow the principle that ''good design enables bad design disables''. They have aggressively promoted in Sri Lanka the concept of 'Social Inclusion for All' focusing on built environments - Safety being a paramount feature - that does not marginalise or discriminate against people on the grounds of inevitable diversity in ability and campaigned against arbitrary categorization of people. Although IDIRIYA do not seek to people with restricted ability, they support and strive to emPower them to lobby individually and collectively for positive change of a dis-''A''bling society, to benefit their own day-to-day productive lives. The organisation receives no outside funding and has been kept functioning by voluntary contributions of time and resources, mainly by its members. == History == IDIRIYA was founded in 2005〔(IDIRIYA launch - Enabling the 'Able yet Unable' ), Sunday Observer features, Retrieved 2 April 2006〕 by disability activist Ajith C. S. Perera. It was born from Perera’s (i).. Passion for creating an environment that is accessible and user-friendly equally to everyone, enabling choice and with dignity, (ii).. Commitment to make a consciousness-raising eye-opener on accessibility to built environments, technology, goods and services and (iii).. Desire to promote universal design principles. IDIRIYA have identified ''two prerequisites'' for a formidable and sustainable national economy: Viz. (i). Arresting the waste of productive human potential through mobilising the productive value of all people, able-bodied or otherwise, and (ii). Minimising unwanted dependents through empowering people. They believe that construction of environments for ''inclusion of all people'' and optimum use of technology in daily life is cost effective, realistic and the effective way to arrest colossal waste of precious assets, enhances gainful opportunities for an increasing wide range of people and make everyone meaningful equal partners in Sri Lankan National development. They realise the need for a new and more positive understanding and changing reactions to dis-ability and its related key issues. This requires opening of minds to the social model of disability that explains how it's the dis-''A''bling designs of social environment that renders a wide and diverse range of people increasingly dis-''A''bled. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Idiriya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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