Global Disability Rights Library (GDRL), an organisation whose aim is to help people with disability find resources they can use to improve lives will be launched in Tanzania.

Speaking to journalists yesterday at Maelezo Auditorium, the programme manager for Global Disability Rights Library, Ms Andrea Shettle, said the project targets delivery of knowledge to individuals and organisations which can be used to strengthen their ability to serve their communities and promote disability rights.

She also noted that the library would enable people with disabilities to form a strong network of contacts among their colleagues internationally in tackling various challenges facing them.

“The global disability rights library seeks to build a bridge between global information sources and various advocates dealing with disabled people that lack access to the knowledge they need to fully implement the convention on the rights of persons with disability in their countries,“ she said.

 Ms Shettle said the project would use innovative offline digital information storage technology called  eGranary Digital Library, which is in more than 350 locations around the world,  to enable hundreds of users to share and use  the digital library simultaneously via multiple computer terminals. (Daria Erasto)

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