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Approximately 1 in 10 children in Africa are living with a disability. Alarmingly, 93% of them do not complete their primary education. AbleChildAfrica is working to change this by developing pilot projects which illustrate how disabled children can be included in mainstream education, and by supporting them to stay there.

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Categories

  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Human Rights/Advocacy Human Rights/​Advocacy
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)

    Situation

    Too often in Africa, disabled children are marginalised and neglected, frequently being hidden away by their families and restricted from going to school. Through this project, we want to make sure that all disabled children in East Africa have the opportunity to go to school with their brothers and sisters, and have access to the resources they need to help them to learn. AbleChildAfrica has been fighting for the rights of disabled children in East Africa for almost 25 years. We have built and resourced special classrooms and have worked to educate parents and communities, so that disabled children and young people are not stigmatised and hidden away. Our 'Access to Education' project will help us to use all that we have learnt from our existing work - including disabled children in mainstream schools - to campaign for widespread change in policy and practice in Africa. We want to show policy makers and planners that including disabled children in mainstream education is possible and we will show them how it can be done. Whilst our projects to date have strongly impacted individual children and their lives, these resources will be used to try to broaden our impact by working to ensure that all education provision is inclusive. We want to make a real impact on the education and therefore the futures of as many of Africa's most vulnerable children as we can.

    Solution

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    Categories

  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Human Rights/Advocacy Human Rights/​Advocacy
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)