Born and raised in Ethiopia, Yetnebersh became blind at the age of five after a meningitis infection. After completing her schooling at the Shashemane Catholic School for the blind, Yetnebersh attended Addis Ababa University. During her studies, she took leadership positions, co-founded the university anti-AIDS movement and founded the Addis Ababa University Female Students’ Association. Yetnebersh earned a Law degree and a Master’s degree in social work. She will soon complete a second Master’s degree in Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University. In , she co-founded the Ethiopian Centre for Disability and Development (ECDD), which promotes and facilitates disability inclusion in Ethiopian legal and policy framework and in society at large. Under her leadership, ECDD became one of the main driving forces for inclusion and for implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Ethiopia. She has also opened the Yetnebersh Academy for underprivileged children in Addis Ababa. Among other important awards recognizing her work, Yetnebersh was awarded Right Livelihood Award in
Yetnebersh NIGUSSIE MOLLA
Yetneberesh Nigussie Molla is an Ethiopian woman lawyer with a disability having accomplished tremendously in changing the mindset of people towards persons with disabilities. Ms. Yetneberesh has co-founded the Ethiopian center for Disability and Development (ECDD) a prominent local organization advocating for disability inclusion in development in and served as the executive director till With a view to broaden her influence beyond her home country, Ethiopia, Ms. Yetneberesh joined Light for the World, an international NGO based in Austria, Vienna () and provided professional and technical support on the human rights of persons with disabilities. In , Ms. Yetneberesh co-founded the Ethiopian Lawyers with Disabilities Association (ELDA) the first professional association of persons with disabilities in the country and served as the first president of the association until March
Before joining UNICEF ESARO as a program specialist of children with disabilities in May , Yetneberesh was serving as the senior manager of the Global Action on Disability (GLAD) network, a unique platform bringing bilateral/multilateral donors and agencies, foundations and ke
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Yetnebersh Nigussie is a lawyer and disability rights activist from Ethiopia.
Background
She describes this instance as an opportunity as it helped her to escape from the early marriage which was widely exercised in Amhara Saint Wollo, at the place where Yetnebersh was born.
Education
She attended her primary classes in Shashemane Catholic School for the Blind, then joined Menelik II Senior Secondary School (an inclusive school) and learned there up to grade Joining Addis Ababa University, she studied her first degree in law and Master’s degree in Social Work.
Career
Yetnebersh Nigussie lost her eyesight at the age of 5. In addition to her academic involvement in the school, she has chaired more than 6 students’ clubs including the students’ counsel Continuously involved in extracurricular activities, she chaired the Amateur Athletic Union Anti-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome movement and founded the Addis Ababa University (Amateur Athletic Union) Female students association in as well as served as the first president of the association.
Besides her academic life, Mississipp
Yetnebersh Nigussie
In , Nigussie co-founded the Ethiopian Centre for Disability and Development (ECDD) in order to address the weak cooperation between disability organisations, specialised service providers and mainstream development programmes. Instead of only providing services to individuals, ECDD promotes and facilitates disability inclusion in Ethiopian society, as well as in the legal and policy spheres. Nigussie and the other founding members of ECDD decided to design the organisation in a way that would reflect, both in structure and programmes, the following values: majority governance by persons with disabilities, gender equality, and positive bias (affirmative action) in staff employment. Thus, Nigussie and the ECDD team made sure that prominent individuals and professionals – both with and without disabilities – were represented in the organisation, reflecting different aspects of society. ECDD offers expertise to the government, civil society organisations and companies alike to help them make their services and workplaces inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities.
From –, Nigussie was the Executive Director of ECDD. Under her leadership, ECDD became
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