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This talk by Lucy Hurst-Brown from BBC Radio 4's, Four Thought series discusses the institutionalization of people with disabilities, including young people, and its effects. In the segment, Hurst-Brown shares personal experiences from her work with people with learning disabilities and the positive changes many experienced as a result of deinstitutionalization and community reintegration efforts.
However, Hurst-Brown also highlights many of the ways in which people with disabilities are still segregated from communities and from society. There are over 3,000 people with…
In this piece from Radio Australia, Phil Kafcaloudes interviews Tara Winkler, an Australian woman who set up an orphanage in Cambodia at the age of 21. After meeting children who had been sexually abused by another orphanage director and seeing the effects of institutionalization on children, however, she decided to make a change. "I realised then, that no matter how good an orphanage is, the best place for a child is with his family,” she said. Her organization, Cambodian Children’s Trust (CCT), now provides education, health programs and support for poor families rather than…