Project Details

Title :   Disable Peoples Advancement through Self-Help Group Initiatives-DIPASI

Description :   Duration : April 2023 to March 2028 [ 4 Phases Completed : 2004-2022 ] Support By : REHASWISS-Switzerland/ Goal of the Project Goal of the project is to empower the persons with disability, socially and economically, promoting their self-employment and securing their social entitlements./ Specific Objectives: To increase institutional capacity and unity of persons with disability to aware them on their human rights, to generate their interest for self-employment and rehabilitation and to give them a unified platform for attainment of their rights, by establishing community based Disabled People’s Unions (DPU). To enhance knowledge, skill and capacity of persons with disability on profitable and disabled people friendly economic development activities giving them access to diversified static center and mobile camp based skill development trainings. To establish a financial support scheme to provide Persons with disability access to financial and input support to successfully start their concerned economic development activities. Readily availability of social and legal support for the persons with disability through providing them access to information, referral, linkage and device services. // Direct Beneficiaries: 250 (yearly 50) extreme poor, helpless and vulnerable persons with disability in Chattogram will be the direct beneficiaries of the project. Indirect Beneficiaries: Persons with disability (around 2,500) who will receive information and social services from the Information & Resource Centre of BBF will be the indirect beneficiaries of the project. Family members (around 2,500) will be indirectly benefitted with the income and employment of the direct beneficiaries. // Components of the Project : 1. Institution Building 2. Skill Development Training 3. Financial support scheme 4. Social Support

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