Purpose of activity: To encourage GBV Frontline Workers to reflect on how persons with disabilities, particularly women and girls with disabilities, within their community may experience inequality based on both their gender and disability.
Timing: 30 minutes
Training Tool: Card set on Disability and Gender Roles (inserted below)
Place cards depicting persons with disabilities undertaking different tasks and roles in the community on the wall. In a large group discussion, ask the following question:
Image Description
This illustration shows 2 persons—a gentleman and a disabled lady, who is lame—are sitting intimately on a broad chair in a park and her crutch is placed aside.
This illustration shows a market place where one disabled lame lady holding her crutch under the arm, is buying some vegetables from a woman shopkeeper. Another disabled blind lady with her child is waiting beside for her turn to buy.
This illustration shows 3 blind girls are washing their clothes sitting down on the floor. One wheel chair can be seen behind them.
This illustration shows a disabled amputee lady doctor is checking a child by putting her only hand into his thigh, kneeling under her knees, while the child is playing with a spoon.
This illustration shows inside of a house, where a disabled girl is picking a bowl from a high shelf, sitting on her wheel chair, while a person is reading a book sitting on a chair beside her.
This illustration shows a disabled aged man is standing beside a vegetable shop holding his walking stick while a lady with her child is standing in front of the shop.
This illustration shows two boys are playing football in the playground while another boy is watching the play in distress, sitting on a bench.
This illustration shows an aged lame man is telling story to a boy and a girl from a book, sitting on a wheel chair. Another baby is sitting in his lap. Beside him, a framed picture is hanging on the wall.