Projects

INCLUSION WORKS PROJECT

Reducing the Barriers to Employment of Persons with Disabilities

In collaboration with Sarah Cohen – U.S Educator and Producer, we developed a short documentary-style film. This film is a dialogue between a group of people with disabilities and a group of hiring managers, serving as a platform for conversation around increased compliance with Nigeria’s disability rights legislation that requires 5% of persons with disabilities be recruited into the workforce.This has also caused a positive effect for Nigerian employers/recruiters of labor such as Jobberman Nigeria to begin to put structures such as mobility, work flexibility, healthcare, etc. to ensure more inclusion for employees with disability.

We designed and published the Nigerian Disability Employment Manual which is currently used by recruiting organizations such as Jobberman Nigeria and Enterprise Development Center – Pan Atlantic University with over 70,000 employers, over 2 million employees and over 100,000 small medium business owners across West Africa. Currently, we are providing capacity building workshops for Nigerian employers of labour to motivate employers to hire accessibility related business settings for persons with disabilities in the Nigerian workplace. Jobberman Nigeria is partnering with Special Needs Initiative For Growth to train youths with visual impairment, down syndrome and autism on employment soft skills for productivity. They will also be connected to employment opportunities after the training.

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Promoting inclusive economic opportunities for Mothers

The project is in it’s fourth year and it is alleviating poverty and promoting inclusive economic opportunities for 10 low-income mothers of children and youths with Cerebral Palsy across Nigeria. In collaboration with the Let CP Kids Learn Foundation, we are strengthening the educational outcomes of 10 children and youths with Cerebral Palsy through STEM and Robotics Learning.

INTERCULTURAL CIVIL CONVENTIONS

Promoting dissemination of positive experiences and coexistence

Under the auspices of the European Union External Action Service and Global Exchange on Religion in Society (GERIS), the Special Needs Initiative for Growth in collaboration with the Blog4SDGs are conducting the multi-cultural dialogue program to engage civil society practitioners, policy stakeholders and governments in critical discussions on civil society issues affecting them.

It is a virtual platform for youths and policy stakeholders to connect, collaborate, and support each other through mutual ideas that promote dissemination of positive experiences and coexistence among youths of different faiths and none. The program is tagged “Intercultural Civil Convention”. The program focuses on three thematic areas such as “Inter-faith issues, Youth with Disability Issues and Education Issues”.

SNIG empowers persons with visual impairment with employment skills

The Special Needs Initiative For Growth (SNIG) in partnership with Global Youth Mobilization has successfully completed a program aimed at equipping young adults with visual impairment in Lagos with essential employment skills under the Model for an Inclusive Quality Education and Social Ecosystem (MIQEE) project. The program, which took place over the course of six weeks planning and implementation of projects with young adults with visual impairment and their educators from the Resource Center for the Blind in Lagos. Click to Read more

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Awards & Achievements

Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy Honors the Organisation

Special Needs Initiative For Growth has been awarded by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy in Nigeria in the person of Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami awarded as a result of our championship in the World Summit Information and Society Forum. The federal government has directed the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Galaxy Backbone Limited and Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) to collaborate with the seven champions of the World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) which includes the winner of WSIS 2022 to ensure that their innovative solutions are of global benefits.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy and Chairman of WSIS 2022, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) made this known in Abuja during the awards presentation ceremony of WSIS Champions for 2020, 2021 and 2022.