The ABILIS Foundation provides grants ranging from €500 to €10,000 for projects initiated by organizations that are run by persons who have a disability. Organizations that are run by parents of children with disabilities can also apply.
The ABILIS Foundation in Finland supports activities that contribute toward equal opportunities for people with disabilities in society through human rights, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency. Special priority is given to projects advocating for human rights of people with disabilities and to activities developed and implemented by women with disabilities.
In order to be eligible for support, organizations must have a certificate of registration and be based in a country defined as qualifying for Official Development Assistance.
Applicants based in India, Bangladesh, Uganda, Kazakhstan, Tanzania, and Ethiopia should contact ABILIS partner organizations for an application form.
Applicants located in other eligible countries must contact the Foundation to request the application form.
More information available at this link.
PWD Kabuhayan Industries of the Philippines, Inc. was organized by persons with disabilities. It was already accredited with the Dept. of Labor and employment. Our registration with the Security and Exchange Commission is still on-going. Our main objective is to create employment to PWDs and out-of-school youth through a woodworking shop.
Can we apply for assistance?
Roan Youth Development is running a project in human rights for young women and has established four young women action groups including young women with dissabilities. How can we apply for more funding from grants for empowerment of people with disabilities.
Warm regards,
Chewe Mulenga
Executive Director
Roan Youth Development
HOW CAN OUR ORGANIZATION BE SUPPORTED BY YOUR ORGANIZATION IN GETING A CAR FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES. OUR NGO IS KNOWN AS HELP THE POOR ORGANIZATION WORKING IN SONGEA TANZANIA EAST AFRICA.
First of all I want to thank ABLISS Foundation for preparing such funds for people with disabilities and other vulnerable people and i want add that Rehabilitee Organization for Afghan War Victims (ROAWV) is an Afghan non governmental and non profit organization (NGO) lead by persons with disabilities to rehabilitate war victims including (Children, Women and Men) with disabilities.
(ROAWV) was established in September 2009 to provide supports and services for persons with disabilities and to seek ways to prevent more disability in Afghanistan.
ROAWV's vision is to upgrade the capacity of persons with disability and find ways for their equal inclusion in the afghan society through self help activities and employments opportunities.
ROAWV's mission is to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities including those affected by war and others consequences.
ROAWV's goal and objectives:
Are to establish a tranquillizing environment for war victims to education, health, skills development trainings, and employment and access to public buildings in Afghanistan. ROAWV identifies the needs of children and youngsters with disability and plans to implement strategies to meet their needs.
ROAWV provides information and education to children with disability and their families, employers, the medical community and general public in order to further understanding the long term challenges of living in an environment such as Afghanistan.
This form of advocacy is designed to increase the community's responsiveness to helping develop and inclusive rights based in society.
ROAWV assists persons with disability in securing accurate timely information, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation services so that they may take or maintain their place in society as productive citizen.
ROAWV has the main office in Kabul city, ROAWV is officially registered with the Ministry of Economy of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and reports to the ministry of Labor Social Affairs and Martyrs and Disabled. (MoLSAM&D) and Ministry of Education (MoE).
Organization Action:
ROAWV works with Schools, Communities and the government to advocate for social inclusion of children and people with disabilities. ROAWV creates accessible environment by constructing ramps on Schools, public buildings and health care centers. This activity creates equal access for all, bridges the gap between children and youth with or with out disabilities and the development of more inclusive society.
In Afghanistan, access to education for all children is limited at best and even worse for children and youth with disabilities. Based on ROAWV's field research and surveys, youngsters and children with disabilities do not have equal access to education, health and employment.
ROAWV supports Schools students for wheelchairs users, the visually and hearing impaired, and other physical and learning disabilities through its School Accessibility project. The School administrations ability to facilitate the rights of these children is often limited or non –exist. Children with disabilities seeking entrance into schools are often rejected on the basis that the schools are not physically accessible and the staff and administration are not equipped to address their needs.
ROAWV has responsibility to ensure more rights for persons with disabilities especially the children of the new generation living with disability.
ROAWV Mandates:
• Create and foster employment opportunities for people with disabilities by providing skills development, vocational training and formal educational opportunities and by lobbying afghan employer's o provide jobs for persons with disabilities.
• Raising awareness on the rights of persons with disabilities among public educators, the general public and civil society.
• Empower people with disabilities through appropriate legislation.
• Ensure easy and convenient access to all public buildings and places
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How can we get support for our organisation which is working for environment,health,food security and below poverty lined community.
Hello hi, how can some one help
IEDP institute education for disabled people
we thank to theABILIS FOUNDATION for its use full support to the disabled people's organization
mainly gender
Abdullahi Hassan
Thanks for the great idea. GDO is a registered organization and working since 1998 for the peoplein distress in the filed of education, health, priority is given to HIV/AID ,Women empowerment through skill training programme and conducting seminars on their legal and human rights, combatinge Violence against women
We have never asked for funds for these programmes this is the first time we are requesting because people are suffering due to flood devatation and they are in a misreable condition. I feel and strongly beleive that these people are disable beause they need our support.
Kisakye Memorial Special Needs Unit (KMSNU) is a program within the Foundation for Development of Needy Communities (FDNC), and strives to provide quality education to children with special needs, who would otherwise not receive one. The mission of KMSNU is to educate and train students with disabilities to acquire the knowledge and life skills necessary to enable them to both fit into and succeed in modern Ugandan society. The Unit is in memory of Kisakye Isaac, nephew to the founder and trustee, who was born with cerebral palsy. Because of his disability, and the education system in Uganda, Kisakye was not able to receive an education at local primary schools. Family and friends of Kisakye worked hard to form a school that would provide a place for children with disabilities, including Kisakye, where they could receive a quality education. Unfortunately, Kisakye passed away in January 2006, only one month before the opening of the school; therefore, the Unit is in his memory.
In Uganda, extremely inadequate knowledge exists about disabilities, disability rights, inclusion, and disability advocacy, particularly in rural communities removed from larger cities or towns, where KMSNU is based. Equality of access, education, and basic human rights for people with disabilities (particularly children), as well as basic information about disabilities and disabled rights for public consumption by community members and government leaders, is entirely lacking throughout the Eastern regions of the country (especially in rural villages).
The Unit seeks to accomplish disability education and advocacy by uplifting the integrity and self-esteem of children with disabilities and their parents through educational empowerment, community sensitization of people living with disabilities, promoting human rights, and community mobilization at a grassroots level. By providing children with disabilities and their parents with social and functional skills education, parents will cease believing their children with disabilities are merely burdens, and instead work to integrate them into everyday aspects of life and society. Because little knowledge exists about disabilities in Uganda, parents of children with disabilities are offered little social, community-based, or moral support in raising their special child, whom they are taught to feel shame about given the child’s disabilities. Influenced by religions, cultural beliefs, and stereotypes which see disability as a curse or the manifestation of sin and disgrace in the family, parents of disabled children often shun them. It is not uncommon in the village where the KMSNU is based to hear a parent of four, in response to a question about how many children they have, reply, “three, and a disabled.” One of the goals of KMSNU is to continue to raise awareness within the community to show that disabled children can be productive citizens who contribute to society. This awareness-raising must begin first with parents of children with disabilities, than expand to other community members, local area standard schools (including teachers and students), community leaders, and sub-county and district officials.
Supervised by the Manager of Special Needs Education, KMSNU opened in February 2006, and registered 20 children with varying disabilities including cerebral palsy, hydrocephalous, down syndrome, mental retardation, hearing and visual impairments, and autism in the first term. A few local community members sensitized the surrounding area through church gatherings, newspaper announcements, and radio talk shows to advocate for the opening of the Unit. Currently, the Unit operates under FDNC, but the goal is to be completely autonomous within the next three years. The Unit functions financially through school fees, income generating activities, donations from abroad, and support from FDNC.
Parents are asked to pay 5,000 Ugandan Shillings (UGX) per year for a registration fee, and 5,000 UGX per term (three terms per year) for school fees. The registration fee covers mostly administrative costs for the Unit, and school fees pay for exercise books (small notebooks for writing), daily lunch for the student, and a uniform. The total cost of 20,000 UGX, about $13 USD for a school year, is a minimal cost for private specialized education in Uganda; however, because of the stigma and culture in Uganda about children with disabilities, only about half of the children pay the registration and school fees.
To generate income for the Unit, with the help of a former FDNC volunteer, the students began an arts and crafts project in the second term of 2008. Incorporating hand/eye coordination, focus skills, and team work, the children make greeting cards, and beaded jewelry. The products are sold locally in the FDNC Art Gallery to international visitors, volunteers, and staff; the profits then go to the KMSNU.
The Unit receives money from FDNC and its U.S.-based partner NGO Hope for Ugandan Students (HUGS) to help facilitate staff salaries; outside private donations assist with basic needs to allow the Unit to function. KMSNU recently applied for two grants through the United States; the results are still pending.
Staff at KMSNU sensitizes parents, community members, local leaders, and district officials about disabilities, disability rights, and disability advocacy in the eastern part of Uganda by providing home visits and community implemented disability advocacy. Home visits are a particularly important part of the program because of the stigma from parents who produce a child with a disability. In Uganda, parents with disabled children do not see a reason to send their special child to school (when it costs money that they would prefer to spend on a “regular” child, since it is believed only “regular” children can contribute to the household, and disabled children exist as burdens), continuing the cycle in Uganda of low education, and later income, levels for people with disabilities. Many parents of children with disabilities view them as family burdens, unable to contribute to daily social and community life because of their disabilities and a drain on scarce economic resources. The Unit is working toward changing the negative attitudes and cultural stigmas regarding people with disabilities by providing knowledge and information at the village, sub-county and district levels to all persons.
Assessing children with disabilities proves to be a challenge because of this lack of knowledge about different disabilities, along with the overall short history of disability education in Uganda. With a qualified person to professionally assess the students and determine their individual learning needs, KMSNU would be able to better create individual educational plans for each student, thus offering them the informed differentiated instruction they very much need. Other challenges include the lack of a qualified special needs education teacher to facilitate and implement the daily teaching of the students, as well as lower high teacher-to-student classroom ratios – allowing the students to receive the direct attention many of them need. In addition, transportation is a problem for children with physical disabilities who come from homesteads far from the Unit, and many of them cannot attend school regularly due to travel limitations and the cost (however minimal) of public transportation.
KMSNU is looking to formally register with the Mbale District Education Office as a private special needs school, and has already taken the first steps in the registration process. Once registered with the district, KMSNU will receive a government trained special needs teacher, information and trainings for teachers working in special needs education, access to government trained disability assessors to help determine each students’ individual educational needs and offer suggestions on how to meet them, financial and technical support for programs, and salary support for current teachers. At present, the Unit must complete certain district requirements in order to become recognized as a registered private special needs school. These requirements include: completion of the building, customized toilets for children with disabilities, fencing around the compound, wheel chair access at all points in the compound, formalization of a curriculum and learning centers in the classroom, hiring of more teachers to reduce teacher-student classroom ratios, further inclusion of parents in student learning activities, and the purchasing of furniture designed to accommodate students with disabilities. The KMSNU recently commissioned the creation of a School Management Committee comprised of various community members that represent stakeholders in advancing the knowledge of rights and equal access for disabled persons in Ugandan society, as well as individuals who will advocate for positive cultural behavior change regarding people with disabilities. This Committee will spearhead the completion of district registration requirements, as well as make joint recommendations and decisions regarding the forward growth and development of the Unit as a whole.
With the ultimate goal of being an independently sustaining unit apart from FDNC, the KMSNU plans to expand into a Community Resource Center for people with disabilities and children with disabilities, with the eventual target of spreading disability knowledge and rights awareness among relevant community stakeholders. KMSNU hopes to reverse popular cultural beliefs that children with disabilities are not fully-functioning members of families or communities by offering workshops, education trainings, and advocacy sessions at the Unit that will advance the human rights cause of children with disabilities to show community members that disabled peoples are entitled to equal rights and can and should be functional, contributing, and valuable members of society. Furthermore, KMSNU aims to directly advocate for widespread societal change in Uganda regarding approaches to disabled education, disability rights, and disability awareness by providing a center where individuals (community members, local leaders) can go to learn about these issues, in turn taking this information back to their homes, communities, and local governments to further advocate for behavior change in regard to cultural and practical approaches to integrating people with disabilities into contemporary Ugandan society.
Please do email me a copy of the APPLICATION MATERIALS
Hello,thank you for your great idea,We are Duat e maa org.a non-profit organization registered in Kenya.I kindly submit our request to enable the disabilities in Kenya.
Thank you very much to infrom you that we are very happy to announce the for your esteemed organization on Empowerment of Disabilities we are submitted application from and project proposal in the year of 2002 and to your recommended in our country representative at Bangalore. We are met but not reply since. So we are happy announce Empowerment of Disabilities. Our's is Curie Educational Society, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. if you more inforation about our organization and details of disabilities please contact to us and give us for your voluable reply.
Thanking you
Yours sincrely
D.Krishna Reddy
Secretary
Curie Educational Society
Kurnool.
I am the chairman of an NGO in Bangladesh.Icommited to social devlopment,work for women empowerment,women violence,women and child health and rights preservation.Now i have been oparating one non goverment organization (registerd by bangladesh goverment)and has various programs with some partner organization on women rights and empowerment.i have been fighting to survive in this world with spirit of claiming women rights and empowerment in the rural areas.if your interest on my NGO you plesse contact me and support me. thank you.
I am the chairman of an NGO health rights society (hrs)in Bangladesh. I born in bangladesh.but i am social worker. i would like join it. plesse inform the details.
Liberian Council on Rural Poverty Alleviation, or LICORPA, is a national financial non-governmnetal organization based in Liberia. From the outline of the training curriculum, it seems that it important for staff to attend, especially, the Branch Managers who has AA degree in business management.
Based on this, we appreciate to know whether any participating orgnization will have to spend money for the training? Beside, the training information is encoded in acrobat. How does one carry out the online application? Please clarify these qns. for me.
Thanks a million.
Regards,
Rufus L. Cole
LICORPA, Liberia
Respected Sir/Madam!
Greetings from GRAS organisation East Godavari District Andrapradesh,India. We are working with most marginalized group who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS Families.Especially child headed families are facing many problems like education,Health and lively hood problem Thatswhy we are encouraging them towards on vocational and Education , More ever many children are becoming orphans and in very trauma and tipacal conditon. we need to give surtain and proper support to them , We have not enough budjet to meet their ploblem. And also we utilisng and tap the sourse from the Government . We are requesting you to given a provistion of support from your Esteemed Agency.
Looking forward to your kind reflection in thids regard.
MGK RAJU Founder
GRAS (Gramena Abivruddi Sangam)
Peddapuram,
East Godavari District
Andhara Pradesh
India
09866070780
i am very grateful for this opportunity very many special needs learners and teachers have droped out of school and the teachers stgoped executing their duties due to the facilities and the segregation in the schools that they go to which has affected the education sector hardly.
I am writing on behalf of All Nepal Public Care Society, to request your help supporting community people and request them to support the Fund, The Sustainable fund providing to wide range of vital areas, for sustainable programs to poor community in Nepal
All Nepal Public care Society office situated in Kathmandu Nepal, aims to provide minimal cost healthcare to the underprivileged local population. We are interested to expand our services to needy people in Nepal.
Keep children away from gangs, drugs and arms by offering them an alternative, Assure their attendance and performance in school. involve the active participation of marginalized groups such as people with disability, women, children, youth, the elderly, people living with HIV/AIDS, prisoners, homeless people, refugees, internally displaced persons, indigenous peoples, ethnic and religious minorities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and intersex persons
The clinic is a non-profit organization which openly accepts monetary donations to help to cover the operational costs, to purchase medications and equipment and wheelchairs, as well as to continue to sustain free healthcare activities in the local community and remote area..
Please let me know if you have any questions or need additional information.
Thanking you
Yours Sincerely,
Bhakta Bahadur K.C
All Nepal Public Care Society Nepal
House No. 745 Tank Prasad Ghumti Road, Anamnagar, Kathmandu Nepal.
Hello,
as my name mentioned there above I humbly submit to you a special request enabling disability people in Tanzania to organize a joint occasion Throughout ABILIS Foundation.
I think that is great idea to fund people who are disable because this is the group which is very undermined and no one cares for it ,so i believe this will be helpful for them and for their bettermerment.
We are ready to run the project.
Greetings of jay and the name of Lord Jesus Christ, the savior
Integrated Rural Development Society is a registered organization and it has registered under foreign contribution(Regulation) act by, minister of home affairs,Govt.of India,new Delhi.Since our organization has involved in the development programmes.Funded by the donor agencies from abroad.We have implemented number of programmers in our project area. Hence we need your support and co-operation regarding development support for development of the target people and we wants to know more details about your programmed activities.Because we are Planning to submit a project proposal in the coming days. Our Priorities are indigenous people. So we are requesting you to send the following information, Programme guidelines, funding application etc.
Please keep our name in your mailing list.Kindly send the above mentioned early to my address or to my email address.
With Regards:-
T.Raja Sekhar.
President.
Address:-
T.Raja Sekhar,
President,
IRDS Society,
Flat No:-44/86-F4,
Prakash Nagar,
Kurnool-518003
A.P (INDIA).
NB:-Done by previous activities by the organization.
1. Sheep Raring Project-Opam – Rome Italy $ 5,000
2. Sheep Raring Project – CEI – Rome – Italy $ 20.000 liars
3. Sheep Raring Project – CEI – Rome – Italy $ 20.000 liars
4. Flood Relief – CARITAS ITALIANA – $ 5,000
5. Fire Victims – u – AISST-SWEEDAW $ 4,500 EURO
6. BASKET MAKING – SALVATERIAANSE HULPACTIE V.Z.W.BELGIAM
7. Women Development project- DEMOS-COMIDE, Belgium.