While an increasing number of organizations and individuals are popping up to aid those with disabilities in obtaining low-cost assistive devices, there really can never be too many, as approximately one billion people across the globe live with some type of disability, making up the world’s largest minority population. And, of those one billion people, 80% live in developing nations, according to the World Health Organization. To contribute to the growing effort to better enable those with disabilities, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is hosting the ‘Enable Makeathon‘, a nine-challenge series to create assistive devices to aid people with disabilities in rural areas.…
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