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Our Objectives

Empowerment of persons with disabilities, other vulnerable groups and their parents through awareness creation, advocacy, and effective service delivery.

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Programme Areas

Education - Health - Nutrition - Climate Change - Agriculture - Women’s Rights - Gender - Child Trafficking - Abuse - WASH - Good Governance

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Operational Strategies

• Formative Research • Stakeholders Analysis and Engagement • Community-based awareness creation and sensitisation • Sign language communication • Entrepreneurship and vocational skills building • Continuous advocacy • Report writing and document • Knowledge management • IEC material development and distribution • Inclusiveness

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Goal

To improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities, their parents, and other vulnerable groups.

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HAEI Empowers 150 Widows, Women With Disabilities In Bekwarra

By TheInvestigator 

The Hope Ability Empowerment Initiative (HAEI) has empowered 150 widows and women with disabilities across the 10 wards of Bekwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State as part of efforts to promote economic empowerment and inclusive participation in the democratic process.

The programme, held at the Bekwarra Council Hall in Abuochiche, focused on voter education, community participation and livelihood support for vulnerable women.

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Operational Strategies

  • Formative Research
  • Stakeholders Analysis and Engagement
  • Community-based awareness creation and sensitisation
  • Sign language communication
  • Entrepreneurship and vocational skills building
  • Continuous advocacy
  • Report writing and documentation
  • Knowledge management
  • IEC material development and distribution
  • Inclusiveness

PROGRAMME AREA

  • Education (Sign Language education, Staying in School, menstrual and Sexuality education).
  • Health and Nutrition (Sexual HIV&AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Reproductive Health, FGM, Immunisation).
  • Climate change and Agriculture.
  • Women’s Rights and Gender.
  • Child Trafficking and Abuse.
  • Entrepreneurship and vocational skill building.
  • Water, sanitation and hygiene.
  • Democracy and Governance.

Our Objectives

  1. Empowerment of persons with disabilities, other vulnerable groups and their parents through awareness creation, advocacy, and effective service delivery.
  2. To strengthen the knowledge and skills of persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups through facilitation to participate in professional development and educational opportunities.
  3. Advocate for social inclusion and improved policies, practices and resources to support the needs of Persons with Disabilities, widows and other vulnerable groups.
  4. To serve as a research centre on disability issues and programmes.
  5. Facilitate the empowerment of women/girls on entrepreneurship and basic vocational skills for improved life quality.
  6. To network with CSOs, government agencies, private institutions and international agencies in ending remote and immediate causes of disabilities in the society.
  7. To bridge the communication gaps between the Deaf community and society through the promotion of Sign Language.
  8. To develop a state-wide database of the deaf across Cross River State.
  9. To create awareness on Sexual & Reproductive Health, Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Harmful Practices.