About DPA in Easy Read

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Disabled Persons Assembly New Zealand is called DPA for short.

We work to make sure that disabled people have the same rights as everybody else.

We are:

• pan-impairment which means the work we do is for all disabled people
• not for profit which means any money we make goes into our work.

We are also a Disabled People’s Organisation which means we are run:

• by disabled people
• for disabled people.

Our governance / staff members are mostly disabled people.

The DPA National Executive Committee makes decisions about what:

• we want to do
• how we are going to do it.

They are also called the NEC.

The work we do includes:

• giving information / advice
• speaking up as a community of disabled people
• looking at what the Government needs to do to make things better for disabled people
• speaking up about what disabled people think:
  • in local areas
  • across New Zealand
  • around the world.