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Focus areas

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  • Published: Saturday, 22 August 2020 10:36
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SEAD is involved in activities which are aimed at promoting the rights of Grandmothers, Orphans and Old in Tanzania. Among other activities are –

  • Mobilizing and organizing People with disabilities individual into solidarity groups.
  • Promoting and protecting the rights of disabled people
  • HIV/AIDS prevention among disabled community
  • Build capacity of people with disabilities individuals and groups
  • Collaborate with international Human rights organization disabilities rights

Our potential beneficiaries of our work are 15,006 People with disabilities, out of which 9,340 are women and 5,666 are men.  The actual number reached by a given project varies depending on the size of the available budget. 

Previous Activities

Since its inception, SEAD has carried out several activities which are geared towards promoting and Creating awareness on different aspects groups at national and local level as hereunder mentioned:

  1. Promotion of disabled people’s awareness on their rights and strategies to fight for and defend them. We run education seminars and organize advocacy activities.
  2. Enhancement of access of people with disabilities to social and economic services for self-development. we organize vocational and entrepreneurial skills training for the disabled
  3. Provision of health education. We run seminars for this purpose. So far we have been focusing on malaria prevention

Promotion of disabled people awareness on HIV/AIDS whereby we conducted education seminar’s for the people with disabilities, Translation of different policy documents, brochures and leaflets related to HIV/AIDS from normal writing to Braille materials in order to enhance blinds access information. 

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