Cheshire Services Uganda celebrates women’s day
By Jeremiah Kaniampiha
The function took place at Sheraton Kampala Hotel on 19th March, 2021 almost two weeks after the usual Women’s day anniversary on 8th March. It was presided over by Minister of State for the Elderly and the Disabled, Hon Sarah Kanyike.
The minister assured participants that government has grants for persons with disabilities. Hajjat Sarah Kanyike revealed that this grant was decided and started working in 2010.
“This money is put on the bank account of people’s groups,” Kanyike revealed. She said people should make use of the grant; each group is entitled to sh5millions. The minister also revealed that the ministry was almost done with consultation on the policy of disability and by May, 2021 the policy will be made public or availed to the public.
Among the day’s discussions included; assessing the impact of COVID-19 on women and girls with disability and feedback session.
Cheshire Services Uganda is involved in improving life chances for children with disabilities through inclusive primary education. It also advocates for access to gainful employment to persons with disability. It aims at improving life chances and household incomes of people with disabilities projects.
Cheshire Services Uganda promotes rights based education for Children and Young People with Disabilities through Inclusive Education. This is done through addressing family, school, policy and child related barriers to participation in education.
At family level, it supports interventions that help create resilience to enable the child keep in school. At school we support development of inclusive practices that contribute to a child friendly environment for all children regardless of their backgrounds.
At policy level, it works to increase engagement with policy makers to support implementation of education policies that contribute to increase in participation of children with disabilities in school. At child level, it helps rehabilitate and empower children to prepare them to be in school while building their esteem to co-exist with other children without disabilities in the same school.