Socio-Economic Empowerment for the Persons with Disabilities (SEED) Project
Socio-Economic Empowerment for the Persons with Disabilities (SEED) Project
Duration
1st Phase : January 2014 – December 2018, 2nd Phase : April 2019 - March 2023
Funder
REHASWISS, Switzerland
Location
The project covers disadvantaged urban & parry urban areas of Chittagong City
Beneficiary coverage
Direct Beneficiaries : 250 persons with Disability (yearly 50) Indirect Beneficiaries : Around 2500 persons with Disability
Goal
To empower the persons with disability, socially and economically, promoting their self-employment and securing their social entitlements
Objectives
To increase institutional capacity and unity of persons with disability to aware them on their human rights, to generate their interest for self-employment and rehabilitation and to give them a unified platform for attainment of their rights.
To enhance knowledge, skill and capacity of persons with disability on profitable and disabled people friendly economic development activities.
To establish a financial support scheme to provide Persons with disability access to financial and input support to successfully start their concerned economic development activities.
Readily availability of social and legal support for the persons with disability through providing them access to information, referral, legal, linkage and device services.
