Empowering Women with Disabilities in Egypt

Summary

This project will identify and train women living with disabilities in Egypt, empowering them to become leaders and advocates for the disabled both within their communities and at a national level.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

According to World Bank-based projections, the persons with disabilities (PWDs) population in Egypt, likely amounts to 4 to 7.2 million people. While PWDs are, in general, hidden from view considered a source of shame and a burden to their families, disabled women are even more marginalized than most. As women, they are segregated from male society, but, as women with disabilities, they are also isolated from the lives of other women. They are, for all intents and purposes, invisible.

How will this project solve this problem?

Training of Trainers (TOT) will identify women with disabilities to inaugurate them into systems of service provision and advocacy, equipping them with civil rights' language and providing them with the tools to become champions for women/PWD rights.

Potential Long Term Impact

TOT will supply women PWDs with: supportive networks for societal inclusion; skills to become leading advocates for women-PWD rights, empowering them to give voice; and a toolkit to identify, teach, and empower other women to participate.

Project Message

Workshops trigger heated discussion and debate among participants allowing them to understand different perspectives and approaches to the advocacy of rights for PWDs, women and women with disability.
- Nadia Adib Bamieh, Manager, NAS

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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