Six challenges that impede entrepreneurs with disabilities in South Africa: South Africa needs review policies meant to support people living with disabilities to give them a better deal. ShutterstockSouth Africa needs to do more to support people living with disabilities who want to run their own businesses. At present it is hard for them to make a living. Helping them would … [Read more...] about Six challenges that impede entrepreneurs with disabilities in South Africa | The Conversation
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Kutwano giving hope to the people with disabilities through sports
Kutwano giving hope to the people with disabilities through sports: Neatly tucked away in Kamunu village, in the Zambezi region is the Kutwano Organization of Sports for People with Disabilities (PWD). Kutwano, which means ‘working together’ in Silozi has an estimated number of 128 active members, who they train and mentor in different sports disciplines. The … [Read more...] about Kutwano giving hope to the people with disabilities through sports
USAID Support to ISTEP Program Gets People with Disabilities into the Workplace
USAID Support to ISTEP Program Gets People with Disabilities into the Workplace: Over the past three years, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) supported the Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) Association to help hundreds of people with disabilities to prepare for and enter the workforce. The Inclusive Training and Employment … [Read more...] about USAID Support to ISTEP Program Gets People with Disabilities into the Workplace
Lorge Invests in Children with Learning Disabilities
Lorge Invests in Children with Learning Disabilities: Archbishop Desmond Tutu put it best when he said, “Do your little bit of good where you are, it’s those bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” This pearl of wisdom shared by retired Anglican Bishop, internationally-respected social activist, advocate of world-peace and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1984), … [Read more...] about Lorge Invests in Children with Learning Disabilities
Universities must do far more for students with disabilities | The Conversation
Universities must do far more for students with disabilities: Students with disabilities face massive physical and attitudinal hurdles. UNAMID/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDOn paper, people with disabilities in South Africa enjoy the same rights as anyone else to an education, whether at school or university. The country’s constitution prohibits the state from unfairly discriminating … [Read more...] about Universities must do far more for students with disabilities | The Conversation
