Engage Disability organised a Disability inclusion workshop for faith leaders, youth and women leaders in Jeypore, Odisha on 6 June 2025. We are grateful to Rt Rev Bidhan Kumar Nayak of the JELC who inaugurated the workshop, and Bishop Immanuel Dani of CNI Sambalpur who personally took interest in ensuring his Diocese delegates arrived and participated.

Saroj Naik a person with visual impairment shared poignantly his experiences of discrimination, neglect and exclusion from faith spaces. Alisha Patro a young woman with locomotor Disability and an aspiring IAS officer preparing for UPSC shared with strength and clarity both about experiencing attitudinal barriers, and also about how her church has embraced her and given her the space to contribute. As always this was the highlight of the day as the rest of the participants were convicted about the failure of faith spaces to be spaces that include and welcome everyone.