Editorial Message

Greetings to all our readers! First of all, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all of you for your great support and responding to our APCD Empowerment Newsletter monitoring survey. This will help us improve the quality of disability-related information distributed to our stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region. APCD is very proud to have all of you as readers and to provide us with more disability-related information. By bridging disability-related information APCD strives to empower and break through all the information barriers.

The Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD) would like to welcome our new Director, Ms. Kanitta Kamolwat as the successor of APCD's former Director, Ms. Saranpat Anumatrajkij, who was appointed to a new position at the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Thailand.

Before joining APCD, Ms. Kanitta Kamolwat was the former Chief of the Planning and Strategic Division at the Women's Affairs and Family Development Department, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security. She has been in the field of social development and human security for 27 years. With her long expertise in the social welfare areas, APCD believes that she will bring along APCD successfully, empowering persons with disabilities in the Asia and Pacific region.

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Editorial Team