We focus on demand-driven IT entrepreneurship and career development to enable persons with disabilties access employment or self-employment, after which they are mentored, supported to secure an internship or job, or given a small grant to start a business. Learning materials are converted into Easy Read format for trainees with disabilities. Special needs educators are trained in the same subjects so that they can transfer skills to persons with disabilities. Some of our focus areas include:

Inclusive Education

We ensure that there is an inclusive learning opportunity for students with disabilities to learn side by side with students without disabilities so that students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers can improve their quality of life through STEM (Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics) , Robotics, Therapy, and other career practices which will, in turn, foster their self-reliance and prepare them for employment.

Health management

Individuals living with special needs are provided various therapy services, health screenings and psychological benefits.

Social disability advocates

The team works with local government and stakeholders to further disability rights through social change and public policy.

Career development

In addition to career development projects for the special needs community, the organization verifies that employers hire and retain special needs adults to promote an inclusive system. Disability awareness – we create awareness about disabilities. We also give caregivers or parents the knowledge required to care for someone with disabilities.

Entrepreneurship

After participating in empowerment projects, young adults with disabilities have their performances assessed. We help to train the trainees invest in their skills through entrepreneurship. Also, low-income mothers of children with disabilities are provided capacity building training in financial and digital marketing skills. The impact is enabling the mothers become financially literate in order to manage the greater financial risks that they face in their families and communities.

Career Development

We provide capacity building workshops for employers of labour to motivate employers to hire accessibility related business settings for persons with disabilities in the workplace. Our work is also helping to train and build the capacity of persons with disability in good communication, leadership, teamwork, adaptability, accommodations for productive working output, digital literacy, Internet entrepreneurship, PWDs labor rights and other relevant career practices related to individual goals so that they acquire the requisite skills needed for them to create or attain jobs in the job market with employers. Our work is also promoting the mainstreaming of disability, giving employers of labour and PWDs an opportunity to become role models in respecting, supporting and celebrating human diversity. it also aligns to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 8, which is reducing inequalities and providing access to equal employment opportunities.

Policy

We partner with government and intergovernmental agencies and allies to develop and implement strategies and protocols in support and defense of the rights of persons with disabilities based on the Africa Union’s Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa.