Disability Connect

Innovate Now accelerator seeks mobile solutions to assist people with disabilities

Africa’s first Assistive Technology Accelerator is seeking applications from innovators across the African continent who are dedicated to developing mobile based technologies designed to assist people living with disabilities. The UK Aid-funded Innovate Now, which is run by Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub and Amref Enterprises Limited, will soon be concluding its first programme, and plans […]

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Making reasonable adjustments to the workplace

It is well documented that hiring people with disabilities is good for business, the economy and your company’s morale. That said, employers have a responsibility to make reasonable adjustments to the workplace so that an employee with a disability can do their job effectively. Previously referred to as a ‘reasonable adjustment’, a workplace adjustment is a change to a work process,

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Ubuntu Centre SA (SA users and Survivors of Psychiatry Group)

Ubuntu Centre South Africa is registered with the NPO Directorate in the Department of Social Services as a Non Profit Organisation in 2008. Our main activities are working in human rights advocacy and the building of support networks for people with psychosocial disabilities. Ubuntu Centre is the first independent, membership-based Disabled People’s Organisation (DPO), run

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South African Neurofibromatosis Association (SANFA)

Affiliated to South African Inherited Disorders Association (SAIDA) A support group for adults affected with NF and for the parents of affected children, as well as for the many families and friends of affected individuals and any other interested people including health professionals and teachers. For further information contact SANFA in Johannesburg. Contact number: 011-716-4071Email

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Disability Association of South African National Military Veterans (DASANMVE)

The resolution of the NEC was to come up with plans and a structure to empower military veterans living with disability. The SANMVA leadership eventually engaged with military veterans living with disability and finally agreed on the following: To co-opt one member to represent veterans living with disability at the SANMVA NEC. To allow veterans

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Association for Hearing Loss Accessibility and Development (AHLAD) – Disabled People Organisation

The Association for Hearing Loss Accessibility & Development is an active South African based association formed with the following Mission: To serve as a Forum for the advancement of all persons with hearing loss so as to enable them to attain their maximum level of independence and integration into the community as well as the

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South African Council for the Blind

​SANCB is a registered non-profit and public benefit organisation established in 1929 with the core objectives of advocacy and promoting the rights of persons with visual impairments, prevention, inclusion and support.   As a South African national representative body for the blind, it offers a supportive, rights driven function to its nearly 80 member member-organisations. The

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SA Federation for Mental Health (SAFMH)

The SA Federation for Mental Health is the largest national mental health organisation in South Africa. The strategic key focus areas of the SAFMH National Office are: The implementation of national awareness campaigns, Empowerment of mental health care users and mental health organisations nationwide, Advocating for the human rights of mental health care users and Mental health research and information management.

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St Stithians School

St Stithians College is a private Methodist Parochial school situated on the border of Randburg and Sandton, Johannesburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It follows a co-ordinate educational model within a village of schools consisting of boys’ and girls’ colleges, boys’ and girls’ preparatory schools, and a junior preparatory. It is built on a 100 hectare estate, one of the largest school campuses in the country.

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