Support 100 disabled youth with Assistive devices.

 
$5,858
$10,924
Raised
Remaining

Summary

This project will rehabilitate 100 disabled youth from underprivileged families through the provision of mobility aids and assistive devices such as wheelchairs,elbow crutches,white canes and braille

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Majority of persons with disabilities are born from poor families with challenges of meeting their own basic needs,it is difficult for them to take care of their disabled child given their economic challenges.By providing the disabled youth with the assistive devices like elbow crutches,wheelchairs,white cane and braille machine,it will make it easier for them to go to school on their own and lead a normal life and contribute to the development of the country because disability is not inability.

How will this project solve this problem?

Collection,purchasing of the various mobility aids and assistive devices and identifying needy disabled youth who cannot afford to access them and train the beneficiaries on their usage before donating the devices to them.

Potential Long Term Impact

Through the provision of mobility aids and assistive devices to disabled youth,they will have an opportunity of living an independent life and advance through education. By acquiring education,poverty eradication will be easier

Project Message

" I had lost hope in life due to inability to walk by myself given my disability,the two elbow crutches received from ANDY have just re-ignited in me the power to live.I can now go anywhere!"
- Ms.Elizabeth, A beneficiary who received a mobility aid

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,858
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $10,924
Total Funding Goal: $16,783

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Organization

Action Network for the Disabled

Project Leader

Fredrick Ouko

Founder
Nairobi, Kenya

Where is this project located?

Map of Support 100 disabled youth with Assistive devices.