Awareness Partnerships
Disability Persons Organizations: Partnerships are key to our awareness programs and at the core of our strategy and our approach to delivering on our mission. Since our inception we have focused on forming alliances and partnerships with organizations that can be considered as disability persons organizations (DPO’s), operating at the local, state and national levels. One of such national organizations with a local presence is the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAWPD), in which case we have built a working relationship with the local chapter (Oyo state Chapter) to collaborate on ours and their disability awareness programs.
Another of such partnerships and indeed the first of such is the one with the Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled, Temidire, Moniya, Ibadan, developed by our late founders. This is the only government funded Rehabilitation Center for persons with disabilities in the south west of Nigeria and it provides vocational training, skills development as well as housing close to 100 youths with disabilities.
Aside from such DPO's, we also collaborate with institutions that include centers that provide services for people with all types of disability especially homes for children with physical disability, Cheshire Home Oluyole, Ibadan, Pacelli School for the Blind, Surulere Lagos.
These partnerships are very instrumental in raising awareness, joining forces and a key to pooling resources for efficiency and effectiveness.
Faith Based Organizations: Since the inception of the foundation, the need for increasing awareness within the Christian community has required that we design various faith based outreach programs for public enlightenment. Faith is a key aspect of the emotional wellbeing of all and people with disability are no exception. On invitation, we visit churches to present our mission and share with them God’s love through our choir and band – The Voices of Hope, using this as an avenue to involve the faith based organizations in this great mission to the disability community.
