Our Projects
The Focus of Our Efforts
Recognizing the enormity of the challenges our society faces, SAPID Ghana is dedicated to making a lasting impact through our campaigns and programs. While our efforts are driven by our organization’s singular focus, we spread a wide net by investing in a variety of progressive strategies. Learn more about our initiatives and get involved yourself.
Vocational Skills Training
We provide vocational training for our beneficiaries with a focus on training in bead making, sewing, and bakery. Trainees have been taken through the production of necklaces, bracelets, waist chains, anklets, key holders, footwear, finger rings, and earrings using beads. Fabrics, sewing machines, and other tools and equipment needed for the training in sewing were acquired. Trainees have had training in the production of nose masks, hair bonnets, beach hats, fabric backpacks, side bags, and purses. Our bakery project focuses on training our beneficiaries in baking flour-based food such as bread and pastries. All three trainees are doing impressively well. We have about 18 beneficiaries enrolled in our program so far. Our training sessions take place three days a week; Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9 am to 2 pm. Hot meals and water are provided each day for all trainees.
Advocacy
We engage community actors, duty bearers, and other key stakeholders at district and national levels to sensitize and require them to include PWIDDs and/or their parents/caregivers in social, economic, and political development in partial fulfillment of the overall national development. Our advocacy has helped over 72 PWIDDs to be enrolled under the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
Awareness Creation
SAPID Ghana seeks to provide more information on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to individuals and communities we come in contact with, to demystify the superstition surrounding Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. So far, we have visited about 18 communities in 4 districts and have reached over 270 PWIDDs in the central region of Ghana.
Parent Self Help Groups(PSHGs)
We register PWIDDs and their parents/caregivers, form parent support groups, and build their capacity to participate in local disability movements as a means to effectively champion the issues pertinent to PWIDDs. In the past years, our initiative has formed 21 PSHGs in the communities we are operating in. Parents' self-help groups
have been formed to foster training, awareness, motivation, teaching, and learning among parents of PWIDDs and their communities in general. PWIDDs in these communities have been enrolled under the District Assembly's common fund. They have also been educated on the rights of their children and know how to access the District Assembly's common fund.
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