Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.56 Disabilities #1

The volume comprises a collection of stamps, first day covers, biographies, articles and notes on the theme of disabilities and physical fitness. The stamps come from all over the world covering Europe, North America, South America and Asia. Additional items are in volumes 57 and 58.

The following people, institutions, charities, campaigns and developments are represented in the volume:

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations

Iraqi Disabled National Day

Health Through Physical Fitness

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn

Artificial prostheses

Foundation for Reconstructive Surgery and Rehabilitation (Colombia)

Ovide Decroly

Education For All (Mexico)

World Congress on Rehabilitation

The Handicapped Guardians' Association

Equalisation of the Disabled (Namibia)

National Day of the Disabled (Algeria)

George Johnn Klein

National Institute of Rehabilitation (Peru)

Break Barriers/Open Doors, United Nations