This project aims to provide 100 women with physical disabilities with sewing machines and tailoring skills with which they can earn a sustainable livelihood.
In much of Ghana, people and especially women with physical disability are perceived as severely defective, and shunned from mainstream society. The perception of their inability to contribute to society is held by both people with disabilities and the general populace, reducing their livelihood options to begging, which reinforces the pervasive poverty cycle. Women are especially vulnerable as their lowly status subjects them to various forms of abuse and exploitation.
By providing women with physical disabilities sewing machines, tailoring skills and the necessary knowledge needed to successfully earn a living through their vocation, we will be able to give them a means to lift themselves out of poverty
In addition to providing a livelihood option divorced from begging, this project will also change the perception that people with physical disabilities cannot make a useful economic contribution to society
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
