SolutionFEST: A 2025 United Nations Special for December 3

Season 3, Episode 9Connect4Life Hosts “SolutionFest”, a Dialogue on Inclusion for UN Day December 3, 2025Every December 3, the United Nations observes the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This year’s UN theme is Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress. As part of Connect4Life’s celebration and our contribution to the global dialogue around inclusion, we present this special episode – SolutionFest 2025: Making a World Inclusive of People with Disabilities.Melanie Taddeo, President and CEO of Connect4Life, hosted this online panel discussion, which was recorded on November 19, and features Lilly Cereghini, Paige Whitehouse, Prateek Mohanty and Sean Pickard, each of whom lives a disability. What you’ll hear is the unedited conversation of Melanie and her four guest panelists deliberating on the issues of priority, the roles of national and sub-national governments, the roles of people with disabilities as well as their families and communities, and the question of building and sustaining meaningful bridges between those with disabilities and the able-bodied.Consistent with this year’s theme for UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2025, as well as the fundamental activity of the United Nations – which, in essence, is to conduct respectful and peaceful dialogue around issues and concerns that help advance all of us, this dialogue highlights lived perspectives, and it also suggests solutions and recommended actions, all from a Canadian perspective.For more information visit Connect4Life at www.connect4life.caAlso be sure to check out the UN’s online resources at https://www.un.org/en/observances/day-of-persons-with-disabilities.....................................................United Nations Theme 2025: Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progressConnect4Life is an accredited NGO of the United Nations Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at UN Headquarters in New York.* The views and opinions expressed by guest panelists in this episode do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Connect4Life.#disbilities #nonprofits #charity #fundraising #givingback #nonprofitorganization #socialgood #makeanimpact #socialimpact #notforprofit #makeadifference #causes #supportnonprofits #dogood #inclusion #disabilityawareness #accessibility #disabilityadvocate #disabilityrights #disabilityinclusion #careerdevelopment #skilldevelopmenttraining #connect4life #unitednations #unday #solutionfest #crpd