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Speaking from Uganda after a fact-finding mission with UK Paralympic champion , Lynne Featherstone pledged that Britain will urge other countries and charities to join our efforts to get disability included in international poverty reduction targets.

Minister Lynne Featherstone said:

Disabled people still suffer great neglect across the world. 皇冠体育app international community - including some major charities - have done far too little to address this in the past.

皇冠体育app simple fact is that we will never solve the root causes of poverty unless we end the discrimination and prejudice disabled people face every day.

Ade and I have seen how smart and simple changes in Uganda are making an enormous difference.

皇冠体育app ongoing discussion about the future UN poverty goals is a once in a generation chance to start to address this shameful inequality.

During their visit, Ade Adepitan and Lynne Featherstone saw a range of British aid projects which provide training, support and education for disabled people. This included a school for blind children supported by the UK鈥檚 Olympic legacy programme, International Inspiration. 皇冠体育appy also saw a community support programme and a state school where have installed a new disabled toilet.

More than a billion people live with a disability. 皇冠体育appy face unequal access to education, employment, healthcare, social support and justice as a result. Some estimates show that almost 90% of children living with disability in Africa do not regularly attend school.

In , 5 million people are disabled.

Uganda is at the forefront of the disability movement in Africa. An Act of Parliament ensures legal protection and equal opportunities for persons with disabilities and an annual grant of 30 million Uganda Shillings (拢7,000) is given to each district to support the needs of people with disabilities. In addition, the Ugandan constitution also recognises sign language as a national language.

Britain鈥檚 pledge follows Lynne Featherstone鈥檚 announcement last month that children with disabilities in the developing world will be able to access and use all schools built from now on with direct UK funding.

Notes to editors

1. Images from the trip are available on request.

2. Read Lynne Featherstone鈥檚 speech on disability and development, delivered to government officials and local organisations in Entebbe, Uganda.