Welcome to Support and Care for People with Disabilities Association (SCPDA)
SCPDA operates a community-based school for children who are blind or have special needs in Bishoftu. It is primarily intended to support visually impaired children while equipping them with basic skills that will allow them to integrate into a typical classroom environment.
SCPDA has been providing different services such as employment opportunities through income generating self employment, educational, health care , mobility aid, nutrition, and transportation support for Persons With Disabilities, male and female.
Social Workers meet with Persons With Disabilities and their families and offer psycho-social counseling support.
What We Do
We fill the information gap available in disability area by organizing experience sharing workshops, facilitating exchange of relevant information among different actors on disability, organizing capacity building training workshops, coordinate and implement activities on different sectors that promote inclusion of persons with disabilities.
Basic Skills
Provision of special needs education services regularly for visually impaired children in two-year terms.
Basic braille reading and writing training
Providing basic Braille reading and writing training for children who are low vision or suspected of losing their eyesight in the future.
Educational materials
Support in basic educational and special need educational materials.
Community based care service
Providing health care education for people with disabilities on different concerns like community based care and service for OVC with disabilities, HIV AIDS prevention and care.
Target Groups
Person with with disabilities ( specially visually impaired children) Bishoftu and Addis Ababa.
Sponsorship programs
Sponsorship programs started with two volunteers widespread able to advance 31 graduate students to continue their education in regular schools.
Empowering people
Specially women with disabilities and families of persons with disabilities through income generating activities.
Medication and transportation
Supporting visually impaired and low vision students in medication and transportation costs.
Guest house services for children
Comprehensive guest house services provided for children in rural areas where special needs education services are unavailable, or prohibitively expensive to poor families
Facilitating
Facilitating medications for extraordinary diseases; for example, children with tumors affecting their sight.
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Projects
Education for Visually Impaired Children
In this project 20 visually impaired children are attending braille...
Projects based on Income Generating Activity
The second project is to bring children with cross disabilities and...
Inclusive HIV/ADIS and disability sensitive information and education
This project is designed to broaden awareness of children and other...
Creating Awareness and Material Support
The forth program implemented by SCPDA is crating awareness and...