Objectives of the Organization
- To reduce prevalent poverty among the disabled by creating income generating activities for the disabled
- To advice local leaders on an investment friendly environment for disabled entrepreneurs.
- To provide life sustaining and independent living skills to the disabled
- To train working age disabled how to start up and manage micro enterprises.
- To negotiate for marketing space for disabled entrepreneurs products
- To resources mobilize for the disabled entrepreneurs since they can’t access Project loans from banks.
Activities:
· Informing Persons with disabilities of their rights, possibilities, methods and sources of income generation;
· Organization of trainings, trips, seminars, consultations in marketing;
· Creation of income generation activities, partnerships with government, local self-government bodies, businesses and private sector;
· Promotion of amendments in legislation and reforms in the field of vulnerable groups employment -- particularly that of persons with disabilities;
· Cooperation with Employment centers;
· Elaboration and publication of leaflets, handbooks on creation of income generation activities.
Problem Statement
There is prevalent chronic poverty among Persons with Disabilities due to institutionalized, discrimination and infrastructural unemployment.
People with disabilities are experiencing various forms of material hardship-including food insecurity, not getting needed medical or dental care, and not being able to pay rent, mortgage, and utility bills-than people without disabilities.
The current National measures of income poverty fail to take disability into account and therefore, underestimate the income people with disabilities need to meet basic needs.
People with disabilities need to be helped to become productive members of society because this will improve the welfare and well-being of the entire community. Sometimes solutions are relatively simple, such as providing reading glasses to those with visual impairments, giving wheelchairs to those in need or making a little contribution to help them start up a small income generating venture or a micro-enterprise in order to live an independent life.
