Self-advocacy is a skill that enables persons with intellectual disabilities to understand their strengths, weaknesses, know they need to succeed and communicate that to other people. Inclusion Uganda emphasizes the ability to speak for one-self. Self-Advocacy also helps persons with intellectual disabilities engage in various social circles without fear of being discriminated.
Self-Advocacy is a skill that enables persons with intellectual disabilities to understand their strengths, weaknesses, know what they need to succeed and communicate that to other people.
Inclusion Uganda emphasizes the ability to speak for one-self. Self-advocacy also helps with intellectual disabilities engage in various social circles without fear of being discriminated.
Community based rehabilitation (CBR) is about improving the general well-being and livelihoods of both people with intellectual disabilities and the communities they live in.
CBR gets parents and the community involved in an attempt to create a disability inclusive environment using the available structures. It has also helped us identify persons with intellectual disabilities who are often hidden by their families
Inclusion Uganda helps persons with intellectual disabilities address personal and psychological challenges that affect them and their families. We provide several services and these include; individual counseling, organizing seminars of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families, organizing outreaches to families of children with intellectual disabilities.
Inclusion Uganda provides vocational training placements to persons with intellectual disabilities in their various areas of interest. We also provide training to self-advocates and their support persons about work ethics and behavior.
We provide recognition of persons with intellectual disabilities through media campaigns. These campaigns inform the community about the rights of persons with intellectual disabilities according to the CRPD thus drawing attention from the government, donors and other stakeholders.
Inclusion Uganda helps self-advocates get involved in volunteering opportunities, help support fellow persons with intellectual disabilities in their communities, apply for permanent or part time jobs, set businesses and also participate in talent shows and exhibitions.
These groups give parents/caregivers of persons with intellectual disabilities a chance to meet others with the same difficulties regarding their children, help and support each other, talk about their challenges together and find solutions, learn from one another and also work together to improve the lives of persons with intellectual disabilities.
Inclusion Uganda has parent self-help groups in all its project districts and we are looking forward to expanding this initiative to other areas.
Inclusion Uganda is working together with a number of organizations and partners concerned with the welfare of persons with intellectual disabilities both local and international.
Inclusion Uganda aims to create awareness on disability inclusion for persons with intellectual disabilities in all sectors through training and mentoring persons with disabilities on their rights and how to claim them.
Through trainings on intellectual disability, the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and the Sustainable Development Goals, local leaders are more observant and sensitive to disability inclusion.
Inclusion Uganda is non-governmental organization that works with persons with intellectual disabilities and their families. Inclusion Uganda was established in 1983 by a group of parents and professionals of children with intellectual disabilities who came together to find a common solution to the problems that were affecting their children both at home and their communities.
