Empowering Youth with Disabilities in Colombia

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Empowering Youth with Disabilities in Colombia

	Summary A holistic approach that provides training for the development and integration of families and children with special needs into their communities.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In Bogota, disability often leads to isolation and lack of integration to family and community. In extreme poverty, there is limited access to health and education. This program directly benefits 2000 people in a community of 15,000, including 200 youth with special needs.

Activities

The project includes programs providing food, health, education and training, and engaging women in income-generating activities.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Funding Policy: partial (Retired)

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project takes an entrepreneurial approach to empower and integrate youth with special needs and their families into the Bogota community, thus achieving sustainable growth, as expressed in their own voices.

Project Message

Women and communities in poverty will start perceiving their kids with 'special needs' as blessings, if only because they will have opened windows of opportunities for the betterment of their lives.
- Tatiana Gomez-Duran, Director