LIFA collaboration wins global award for disability-inclusive crisis plan

Non-profit enactment Life is for All (LIFA), successful collaboration with Georgetown University and the University of Thessaly, has received the planetary Earth Commons ECo Impact Award 2026-2027 for an inaugural supporting families of children and young radical with neurodevelopmental disorders and disabilities successful situation situations.

The grant recognizes the improvement of a programme focused connected helping families accommodate to the clime situation and amended preparedness for emergencies.

As climatic and humanitarian crises intensify, the collaboration highlights a captious yet often overlooked need: protecting and supporting vulnerable families during emergencies successful an organized, inclusive, and sustainable way.

The inaugural maps systemic challenges affecting families’ safety, access, and support during climate-related emergencies such arsenic earthy disasters, floods, and wildfires.

Life is for All promotes the inclusion of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders and invests successful the acquisition of those who support them. Through this initiative, it aims to empower families and strengthen societal preparedness. 

The programme aims to besides equip frontline responders, such arsenic constabulary and occurrence services, with tools and guidance to safely support radical with disabilities successful emergencies.

The team will work with families and young radical successful Greece and the United States to identify, done an evidence-based approach, cardinal factors for effectual response. These see connection needs, sensory conditions, affectional and behavioral responses, mobility, aesculapian requirements, and disruptions to regular routines – captious for galore children.

“At Life is for All, we support families of neurodiverse individuals and understand that successful times of crisis, uncertainty and deficiency of guidance tin rapidly turn into danger. We request clear, inclusive guidelines that translate into applicable support for some families and professionals. Families cannot beryllium an afterthought. Knowledge indispensable signifier the systems and mechanisms that support them,” said Nathalie Moschou, President of Life is for All.

“For families successful Greece, this collaboration marks an important step toward greater preparedness and dignity successful clime crises. Together with Georgetown University, we are gathering solutions so that nary household is near behind. This is inclusion successful practice,” Moschou added.