The Problem
People with Disabilities in Uganda have always struggled to integrate into societies that tend to exclude persons living with disabilities. As the number of People with Disabilities surpasses two million people in Uganda, the struggle cannot be ignored. Uganda faces a considerable challenge in integrating the disability community. The disability concerns include:
- High rates of ignorance among PWDs: In Uganda, 85% of the PWDs are illiterate.
- Poverty: In Uganda, 80% of PWDs live in long-term poverty.
- Unemployment: In Uganda, 87% of PWDs are unemployed.
- Poor Health is attributed to ignorance, poor feeding, food insecurity in households, abuse of human rights, unfavorable environment, and limited access to clean water
- Inaccessibility, discrimination, isolation, and exclusion that fuel the above problems – children, women, and men with disabilities face access – Schools, Hospitals, Churches, community offices, Banks, recreation centers. The means of transport and communication are never inclusive for all.
Our Solution
KAGPWD empowers persons with disabilities, their families, and communities in the Kasese district by ensuring inclusion and fighting for fairness in driving sustainable community development. We use a holistic community development approach as a pathway to:
Education
Ensuring that children and youth with disabilities acquire formal education so that they can break the cycle of illiteracy and poverty.
Water & Hygiene
Ensuring access to affordable and reliable clean and safe water for drinking, hygiene, sanitation, and garden irrigation aiming at improving nutrition and health.
Economic Empowerment
Ensuring that children and youth with disabilities acquire formal education so that they can break the cycle of illiteracy and poverty.
Rehabilitation
People living with disabilities access affordable rehabilitation, are well cared for, and advocating for their rights so that they can fully participate in developmental activities fairly.
Food Security
Empowering people to produce their own organic food while caring for the people, the Earth, and the future.
Inclusive Education
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Rehabilitation
Voluntary identification and assessment for children with disabilities and help them to access free rehabilitation as earliest as possible
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Water and Sanitation
We identify villages that lack access to clean and safe water and then we seek support to help drill a community borehole to solve the problem.
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Reproductive Health for Girls & Women
This allows us to specialize in all dimensions of trades and stocks, because we have a specialist within the team for every scenario.
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Economic Empowerment
We train young adults, women, and men with disabilities in business development.
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Permaculture and Agroecology
We are guided by the three permaculture ethics: People Care, Fair Share and Earth Care.
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