The efforts of the government in providing facilities and services channeled through the National Policy in concurrence with the Ministry of Health, Education, Social Services, and Vocational Guidance are deemed to be not equal, uniform, or adequate. Enabling them and providing them with care and assistance to lead a meaningful life, demands the provision of access to facilities and services in the areas of health, education, rehabilitation, economic and social empowerment. They are not rehabilitated and cannot realize their full capacity.Ĭonsidering the challenges mentioned above Bright Future Initiative (BFI) and Cheshire Foundation Action for Inclusion (CFAI) have been actively involved in Bridge the Gap - Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) Project, which aims to empower of persons with disabilities to reach their full potential and lead meaningful lives in their communities.īridge the Gap thereby seeks to empower and rehabilitate persons with disabilities to lead independent and meaningful lives at family and community levels. As a result, persons with disabilities are indeed neglected by their families as well as their communities and they are segregated from the society. Due to remoteness, lack of accessibility of services a huge number of persons with disabilities is denied rehabilitation services in rural areas. In our country, there are very few rehabilitation centers to serve persons with disabilities and most of those are situated in the cities, whereas around 83 percent of total Ethiopian population live in a rural area. The Oromia Region appears to be the area with the highest number of persons with disabilities, 333,653, followed by the Amhara region which appears to have 281,291 persons with disabilities. According to Tirussew (2005), eight million disabled people live in Ethiopia and 2.95 percent of the population has a sensory, motor, and cognitive disabilities.The World Report on Disability from 2011 estimates, the prevalence of people with disabilities in Ethiopia is 17.6 percent (WHO, 2011). 15 percent of the world’s population live with disability and 80 percent of these live in developing countries (WHO, 2011).
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