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We have been working in Uganda since 2024 with 2 nonprofits to mobilize their staff and community leaders as advocates who reduce harmful beliefs about disability and improve support for families impacted by disability.

PROJECTS IN UGANDA

Mobilizing Tanzanian Nonprofits to Support People with Disabilities


Kupenda has conducted community leader training programs, needs assessments, sensitization events, and community-based rehabilitation activities to help various Tanzanian nonprofits make their programs more inclusive. All these partners are now using our approaches to run events and trainings that equip community leaders and families as disability advocates.

 

Uganda’s 2020 Persons with Disabilities Act promotes human rights and accessibility for people with disabilities. The government also offers health, education, vocational training, and rehabilitation services to people with disabilities.

Despite these policies and programs, there are still gaps in implementation, monitoring, and compliance. For example, the government has outlined plans to create a Disability Management Information System, but it has yet to be implemented.

We are working to change this.

In the past year…

343 People with disabilities’ lives improved.
29 Social workers, pastors, traditional healers, and nonprofit leaders trained.
4,490 People sensitized about disability justice & inclusion.

What we have accomplished

Kupenda’s partner organization, Kuhenza for the Children, is a member of the African Disability Collaboration (ADC) technical working group. ADC members provide technical support to one another and implement joint projects to improve the lives of people with disabilities in their respective catchment areas. In July of 2024, as part of ADC’s initiatives, our Kenyan staff visited two nonprofits in Uganda and trained them on how to support stigma reduction against people with disabilities by mobilizing community leaders as disability advocates. To do so, they first trained 5 social workers from the Kyaninga Child Development Center and 2 staff from the Mukisa Foundation on how to conduct our disability inclusion workshops. They then helped the social workers run two trainings that were attended by 11 pastors and 11 traditional healers. These trainees will sensitize an estimated 4,490 community members about disability justice and improve the lives of approximately 343 children with disabilities in the first year after their training.

TOGETHER, we can reduce harmful beliefs about disability and improve the lives of our world’s most vulnerable children. JOIN US!

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