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Name of Organisation: Self-help group Thnal Bambek Village

Project title in English: Building capacity and improve life situations of disabled people

Thnal Bambek Village

Cambodia

Project number: 11AA119-FT

This project is being implemented by a self-help group of 12 members with different kinds of disabilities. The group received funding for small Income Generating Activities such as animal husbandry, small businesses and agricultural activities. Some group members have been given cows or pigs to raise, two of them have established a small grocery shop and one has been provided with a water pump for watering his vegetables. The project is now (Sept 2012) half-way through and the Abilis team visited this group and some of the beneficiaries in April 2012.

Name of Organisation: ARTEDIF, Associacão Artesanal dos Deficiêntes Físicos (Handicrafts Association of the Physically Disabled)

Project title: Producão de Artesanato e Corte e Costura

Project title in English: Production of handicrafts

Project number: 10AF188

ARTEDIF is a disabled persons' workshop where handicrafts such as sewing, leatherwork, jewellery, bags etc. are produced. In support of their activity, Abilis granted ARTEDIF funds with which raw material and a sewing machine were purchased. ARTEDIF also has a shop where the products of both its own members and those of AMMD, Women's Sewing Workshop, are sold.

Name of Organisation: AMMD, Associacão das Mulheres Portadoras de Deficiência - Maputo

Project title: Projecto de Corte Costura

Project title in English Sewing project

Project number: 10AF180

This is a sewing project implemented by women with different disabilities. The teacher herself was disabled. The women were taught couture, embroidery and needlepoint. They are in cooperation with the disabled persons' handicraft atelier and shop, ARTEDIF, which also sells their products.

Name of organisation: Bego Erayyi (Positive Vision) Organization of Disabled Persons in Dangla Town

Dangla, Ethiopia

Project title in English: Income generation through cattle fattening

Project number: 10AF118

Bego Erayyi is a cross-disability group that implemented a cattle fattening project in Dangla Town, Ethiopia. The group built a stable, purchased cattle, fattened and sold it. With profit from the cattle sales, the group purchased milk cows and now sells milk. They also sell manure.

Name of organisation: ADPPDCM, Associacão de Desportos para pessoas portadoras de deficiência da cidade de Maputo (Maputo Sports Association for disabled people)

Project title: A promocão do Desporto entre Pessoas com Deficiência

Project title in English: Promotion of sports activities among people with disabilities

Project number: 10AF065

The objective of this project implemented by a sports association founded by the disabled themselves and run largely by volunteers has been to promote sports activities for people with disabilities while strengthening the capacity of the association. First on the agenda was the purchase of sports equipment and accessories. New disabled athletes have joined the ranks and coaching has improved. Also, contacts have been made with sports clubs for the general public As a result of the project and according to plan, a Mozambican Paralympic Comity was created and the first (5) disabled Mozambican athletes have been selected to participate in the London Paralympic Games this year.

Ethiopian National Association on Intellectual Disabilities (ENAID)

Ethiopian National Association on Intellectual Disabilities (ENAID)
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
07AF103

This project is being implemented by an association of parents of developmentally disabled children (ENAID). They are training 20 young people with developmental disabilities in modern weaving techniques. The young people also make different products, for example linens, from the cloth they weave. There are also 15 mothers of developmentally disabled young people, who in the cotton preparation stage of weaving. The training site is located next to the ENAID office. There is also a small shop in the same premises, where they sell the articles prepared by developmentally disabled young people.

Construction Works Producers Cooperative Union

Construction Works Producers Cooperative Union
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
08AF132

This project is implemented by a cooperative union. The members of the cooperative have different kinds of disabilities. Some of the members have a physical disability and some of them are deaf. The cooperative union has a workshop where they produce cement blocks for construction. They have started to produce pre-cast products like cross beams for construction sites. They are training 15 workers with disabilities. Half of the trainees are women. All the trainees will be employed by the cooperative after the training.

Ndihmoni Jeten – Help the Life Association

Disabled Youngsters with Camera
Tirana
Albania
08EU02

This NGO is based on the initiative of a group ofparents of children and youths with mental and physical disabilities. The NGOoffers a wide range of psycho-social educative services for these childrenand youths. Their main aim is to integrate people with mental disability aged2-24 years into society with equal rights. This NGO has parentalnetworks established in 12 main districts of Albania and continuously aims atextending its services and offer structured daily and community service. Thecurrent project aims at teaching arts of photography to light to moderatedisabled children and youths in Tirana using art-therapy as an alternativetherapeutic activity alongside occupational therapy. Photography therapyshall help to bring out the imagination of these children and youths, breakingisolation and building self-confidence, self-esteem and offeralternative skills.

Deaf Initiatives Network Kenya, DINET Kenya

Deaf Empowerment Towards Disability Human Rights
West- Central- and Coast region
Kenya
08AF107-HR

DINET was founded and registered in Nairobi in 2005 with the objective to advocate for the fundamental rights and equal opportunities of deaf people of Kenya. This current project focuses on advocacy of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 60 deaf association leaders from 3 regions are trained on advocacy, lobbying and networking skills. The workshops last 4 days after which participants are expected to take up the initiative of advocating for the UN Convention and lobbying for the recognition of their rights. They will also be provided with resource material for ongoing training sessions in their home areas. DINET cooperates with regional NGOs such as Kenya National Association of the Deaf, The African Decade for PWDs, Global Deaf Connection Kenya and Deaf Aid Kenya.

Peramiho Disabled Persons Action (PEDIPA)

Workshop Centre for Tailoring, Metal works and Handlooming
Peramiho
Tanzania
07AF53

PEDIPA is a group of 10 physically disabled women andmen. Their main goal is to live and work independently. Their projectfocuses on different handicraft activities to generate income. The grouphas earlier experiencesin handicraft such as welding, tailoring, shoe making,carpentry and weaving. However, the group members received skilltraining in book keeping, accounting and customer care as well as improvingtheir vocational skills.

Jikwamue Group

Manufacturers (Tailoring, Shoe Making and Carpentry)
Mbalizi, Mbeya
Tanzania
07AF55

This group has 20 members with different physicaldisabilities. All members are professionals in their own activity and formedthree groups that opened now their own workshops – tailoring, carpentry andshoe making/repair. The group also purchased raw material and machines tostart their income activities.

Tushikamane Group Njombe

Ushonaji kwa walemavu – Tailoring by disabled people
Njombe
Tanzania
07AF129

Tushikamane Group consists of 5 physically disabledand one blind person. Their main goal is to produce qualitative high clothesand to increase the number of customers. All members are experienced intailoring and received through the project more and better sewing skills, machines and raw material.

INFORMATICS AND COMPUTER TRAINING FOR YOUNG VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS

Hoang Mai Blind Association (HMBA)
Ha Noi
Viet Nam
08AA001

Hoang Mai Blind Association provides computer training to young visually impaired persons in the project "INFORMATICS AND COMPUTER TRAINING FOR YOUNG VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS". The training includes JAWS, Microsoft Word, use of e-mail and internet, and the use of Skype. The IT training will create favorable condition for the young members to enter the labor market to have substantial income and integrate in the community.

Association of disabled children, Dilshod

Association of disabled children, Dilshod
Vahshisky raion
Tajikistan
06AA22

The Association organized a project called " Support of the right of the disabled children". They manufactured and modified mobility aids, for example wheelchairs. They also organized training in tailoring and shoemaking. The young women in the picture are sewing bed linen.

Literacy for Blind

Société Haitienne d`Aide aux Aveugles SHAA (Haitian Support Society of the Blind)
Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
02AM07

The society offers support to pupils with visual impairments. They are studying in mainstream schools. In the project supported by Abilis, the pupils learned Braille and were taught how to use computers. The society paid some school fees of the blind pupils. They also had an awareness raising campaign to school teachers and parents.

Candles and Chalk

Welfare Association for Rehabilitation of Disabled and Society, WARDS
Bangalore, India
01AA28

The association provides educational and vocational training for disabled children and adults (both men and women). They had a project where persons with mental retardation learned chalk making, candle making, and skills of daily living. Also, WARDS offered a course called “Interpersonal communication and listening skills” for visually impaired youths and boys. The course lasted from eight to ten weeks.

Mobility Aids

Foundation to Encourage the Potential Of Disabled Persons
Chiang Mai, Thailand
03AA03T

The foundation builds, delivers and donates mobility aids for disabled persons in the Northern Part of Thailand. The staff arranges follow up home visits to disabled persons to evaluate potential wheelchair candidates or to visit previous mobility aids recipients. The Foundation has developed PVC mobility aids and completed the first prototype all terrain wheelchair combining both PVC and steel. This prototype was made in order to explore ways of reducing production costs, overall wheelchair weight and to provide less complicated size expansion adjustments as children grow.

Disabled Refugees

Forum Of People with Disabilities
Bhutanese refugee camps,
Nepal
02AA29

Disabled refugees formed the forum in exile. They work for 3378 people with various disabilities in seven different Bhutanese refugee camps. They support people with disabilities by visiting their homes, offering physiotherapy and counselling, organising awareness raising programmes and identifying newborn children with disabilities. The forum also organised workshops, and talk programs for parents and guardians.

Gender and Disability

Association of disabled Women in Kazakstan, SHYRAK Almaty,
Kazakstan
03AA25

The association organized an awareness raising seminar for 14 potential disabled women leaders in Almaty. The duration of the seminar was 4 days. The topics discussed in the seminar were gender and disability, double discrimination of women with disabilities, violence against disabled women, and disabled womens´ reproductive rights. Through the project, SHYRAK has become stronger as an organisation and has built a wide international network of disabled womens´ organisations in Central Asia.

Vocational Training

Youth and Persons with Disability Integrated Development Association,
YOPDIDA,
Kayunga, Bugerere,
Uganda.
02AF71

This cross-disability association includes deaf, blind, deaf-blind and physically disabled youngsters, who were not able to continue their studies in mainstream schools. So they came together and decided to start their own centre to learn independent life skills and to get vocational training with the help of their parents and local authorities. YOPDIDA is arranges awareness rising meetings and events with different kind of authorities and general public.

Technical Workshop

Disabled Aids and General Engineerings,
DAGE,
Dar Es Salaam,
Tanzania.
02AF02

This small industrial company is owned by physically disabled skilled technicians. They have started already in 1977. DAGE is situated in a small industry house owned by state. They renovated their workshop and upgraded the machinery and the office. They produce and repair tri-cycles, wheelchairs and other mobility aids for the needs of other disabled persons. Also a small scale metal equipment shop was opened for local public.

Healthy food

Zambia National Association of the Physically Handicapped, ZNAPH,
Lufwanyama Branch, Lufwanyama,
Zambia.
02AF34

A traditional chief donated 15 acres of prime land by the river and dams for the association branch with 38 members. The land was fenced and cleared for farming. Now they have 300 orange trees, maize, paw paws, bananas, potatoes and vegetables growing. They have food and they can sustain their own living and other needs by selling their products.

Rising Awareness

Disacare Data Club,
Kasama,
Zambia
01AF67

This cross-disability group established an information centre for persons with disabilities. They gathered a district database of disabled persons with different kinds of disabilities. Nowadays the computers are used for awareness rising campaigns about the human rights of disabled. The office also provides secretary services for the general public as an income generating activity for club members.

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