Enhancing the Capacity of Persons with Disability is a UK charity registered in June 2018. The registered charity number is 1178779.
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ETC of PWD:
Higher Week
Iddesleigh
Winkleigh
EX19 8SJ
For the history of ETC of PWD go here
What is ETC of PWD for?
The purpose of this charity is the relief of poverty of persons with disability in Northern Uganda. This will be done by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, psycho-social support, business support and grants designed to enable individuals to achieve sustainable and self-supporting livelihoods.
Who will benefit?
Beneficiaries will be those people with disability:
- Who require training to develop the skills to become employed or self-employed.
- Who have set up small businesses/become self-employed but require further support to become economically sustainable and resilient
Programmes:
ETC of PWD will work in Northern Uganda, predominantly in Gulu and surrounding districts, by developing projects, typically of 6-9 months duration, delivering training, mentoring, psycho-social support and business support to individuals and groups.
ETC of PWD will design/develop project plans based on the experience and evaluations of similar projects and the pilot project that has now completed.
The projects developed follow the sequence outlined below:
The projects will be delivered by organisations in Northern Uganda.
Gulu Disabled Persons Union
Gulu Disabled Persons Union (GDPU) is a Uganda registered charity and is the Gulu District organisation recognised by the local government as the advocate for persons with disability in the area.
ETC@GDPU
Through this project, aimed at disabled youth who had already established their own businesses, GDPU delivered or assisted in the provision of education, training, psycho-social support, business support and grants designed to enable individuals to achieve sustainable and self-supporting livelihoods.
etc@gdpu started in early 2017 and the support to beneficiaries still continues.
For more information go to the etc@gdpu Past Project pages
Vplus@GDPU
The Vplus@GDPU programme began in November 2020 by making the GDPU site Covid 19 secure. The full vocational training programme for 52 disabled youth started in January 2021, delivered by GDPU. The first cohort of VPlus trainees graduated on 10th November 2021 and subsequently moved on to six months Post Training Support. Cohort Two of the VPlus training programme recruited trainees in December 2021 and started training in January 2022. The programme finished in June 2023.
VPlus was joint funded by ETC of PWD (through trustees and private donations) and UK Aid Direct.
For more information go to the VPlus past project pages and Older Posts on Project News for month by month narrative.
Vplusplus
Enhanced and extended Post Training Support for all 113 VPlus graduates – also extending to past etc@gdpu beneficiaries . Delivered by GDPU.
For more information go to the Vplusplus tab under Current Projects and Project News for month by month narrative.
VIVA@GDPU
There are two parts to the VIVA@GDPU programme, sponsored by Viva La Visa – a UK based specialist visa company for the entertainment industry.
1: The use of music, music related activities and music production as an aid to vocational learning. To be delivered to the vocational trainees at GDPU on skills and ‘Plus’ element courses delivered by GDPU themselves.
2: Music, music related activities and music production as a standalone vocational skills course.
For more on this innovative programme go to the VIVA@GDPU tab under Current Projects. you can follow monthly updates on Project News
For more on Viva La Visa, please go to their website.
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