Principles of Independent Living Center Lalitpur:
- Human Rights: equal rights & opportunities for all; no segregation by disability type or stereotype.
- Consumerism: a person who are using or buying a service or product should decide what is best for him or herself.
- De-institutionalization: no person should be instutionalized.
- De-medicalization: persons with disabilities are not sick
- Self-help: Professional are not the source of the help provide
- Advocacy: protect human rights; ensure rights of persons with disabilities from all stakeholders.
- Barrier Removal: institutional, architectural, communicational and attitudinal barriers must be remove.
- Consumer Control: Persons with disabilities are governed, managed, staffed and operated by persons with disabilities
- Peer role Models: leadership for living independently and disability rights is vested in persons with disabilities.
- Cross–Disability: work done by different types of disability
