Persons with Disabilities (PWD) have been historically one of the marginalized groups in the society due to experience of discrimination, labelling and social exclusion.
The Department of Social Development PWD Sub-Unit is established to address the plight of PWDs through advocacy and empowerment programs, and to ensure that PWDs rights are upheld. Below are the 5 programmatic interventions as informed by the CoJ Policy for PWDs 2009 currently under review.
1.Prevention and Awareness: Activities that empower and educate PWDs, families and communities on issues related to PWDs to address challenges of social exclusion which leads to inaccessibility of services. These are done through information session, workshops or door to door campaigns. 2.Provision of Assistive Devices: Mechanisms to enable all citizens including PWDs to reach every destination by their streets and pathway systems, and ensure an environment that is accessible; e.g. provision of assistive devices such as wheelchairs, walkers, mobility canes. Done through partners such as the Rotary Club.
3.Skills Development and Job opportunities: The focus of the program is facilitation of acquiring adequate and relevant skills for possible future participation in the economy as well as linking to job opportunities.
4.Advocacy: interventions to ensure access to basic services to address fundamental human needs and promotion of human rights. This is done through referrals and linkage to various stakeholders for access to services and promotion of social inclusion of PWDs.
5.Facilitation of Support Group: Activities to expand the richness of human life through implementation and facilitation of various activities. It focusses on enhancing people’s opportunities and choices thereby encouraging self-reliance and self-worth
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