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MESSAGE FROM THE
CHIEF EDITOR
Makmor Tumin
Disability Visibility: Together We Excel • To honor the knowledge, skills and talents
of persons with disabilities and advertise
t is indeed very true that there are some who them to the job market to increase their
prefer to keep their personal issues such as employability rate.
Iillnesses as private, and it is not strange if
there are disabled people who want to keep their • To give an opportunity for persons with
disability invisible. This becomes very obvious disabilities and those who are interested
when the disability itself is not so obvious or in disability issues to get some token of
they have only just got it recently or they have income through honorariums.
already been supplied with an abundance of
solutions. Nevertheless, there are many of those In this issue, we feature key problems requiring
who not only want their issues shared to others, our attention. They include issues on employability,
hence visible, but some of them also have no the way Malaysia respond to international
other choice than to make it visible to get others’ conventions, and how issues regarding specific
attention and help. laws on disability were enforced, including matters
on the quality of life of the disabled. We firmly
This is the first issue of the Mainstreamer believe that specific individual experiences matter
e-Magazine, with “Together We Excel” as the to self-motivate others, both the disabled and
magazine theme, and disability visibility as the non-disabled people, thus we feature some of
main focus for this first issue. We believe it is them here. In addition, to give some idea how
very important for us to create awareness to projects on disability visibility are conducted in
society, both to the disabled and the non-disabled other regions, specific book reviews targeting this
community on the relevant and important issues subject are also made available in this issue.
faced by the disabled group. All people in the
world are either differently able or differently While the theme “Nothing About Us Without
disable and no one in this world can excel if their Us” is important, we also believe that “Together
needs are not fulfilled. If we understand what We Excel” better suits the purpose and scope of
the need is for disabled persons, we believe that this magazine.
together we can excel. The magazine is published by Tertib Publishing,
Below are the specific objectives of the and we would like to thank the AUN-Disabillity and
magazine: Public Policy (AUN-DPPnet) for funding this small
project.
• To provide a platform for persons with
disabilities to share their ideas and to voice
out their concerns.
• To serve as a venue for persons with
disabilities to exercise their skills and talents
through electronic media outlet.
