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UN Global Advocate Eddie Ndopu: Changing how the world thinks about disability
UN Global Advocate Eddie Ndopu: Changing how the world thinks about disability | GZERO World

UN Global Advocate Eddie Ndopu: Changing how the world thinks about disability

When Eddie Ndopu was a toddler in Namibia, he was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy and given just five years to live. Now 33, Ndopu is on a mission to reframe how the world thinks about disability, advocating for human rights and equal access to education all over the world.

“The statistics are still abysmal. We're sitting between 90 and 98% of children with disabilities in the Global South who've never seen the inside of a classroom,” Ndopu says “It remains a travesty of justice.”

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