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Empowering Dominicans with Visual Impairment through Braille and other Marketable Skills

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The project was implemented in 2006/2007 by the Dominica Association of Persons with Disabilities (DADP) in collaboration with Abilities Unlimited of Dominica.

The main targets of the Project, children and adults who had serious visual impairment and those who support themselves through craft making, expected to benefit from Braille competence while the community and families would eventually gain from the improved abilities and income earning capacity of these individuals.  The Project also expected to improve the working environment and better equip the Workshop for the Blind operated by Abilities Unlimited to be more productive.  The initiative’s objectives were:

  • Capacity Building in the training of Braille
  • Training in Braille to initial cohort
  • Technical Assistance for the enhancement of output of Abilities Unlimited NGO

Vision

A more gender friendly society, which recognizes the differences and similarities between women and men, boys and girls,reflected in the acquisition of equal access to resources, opportunities and benefits for the realisation of the full potential of all citizens in national development based on the principles of equality, justice and peace.

Mission

The Gender Bureau representing the interest of women and men at the governmental level ensures that policies, plans and programmes are in place to achieve improvement in the status of women and men and carries out its mandate in collaboration with government and non-government organizations.

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