Special Children Special People - SCSP

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Special Children Special People (SCSP) was registered in 2013 as a grass-root community based organization to rehabilitate, advocate for and empower people with disabilities with a focus on children to prepare them for inclusive education. This is important in reduction of neglect, combating stigma and abuse, having been realized that many young people with disabilities in Uganda have challenges to adopt into formal education due to many factors like low level of perception, low self-esteem, low egos and psychological torture.

The mission of Special Children Special People is to champion inclusive education, nurturing, rehabilitation and capacity building of special needs people, particularly special needs children, through a participatory approach that involves persons with disabilities, their parents or guardians, the community and the society leadership to achieve better inclusion of special needs.

Objectives:
• To education children towards self-independence through assessments, early intervention, inclusive education and rehabilitation.
• To offer welfare support to children and families affected by disability, HIV and poverty.
• advocate for legislation, policies and educate communities on the potential of persons with disabilities while promoting a positive attitude.
• To promote home and community based locally made rehabilitation intervention therapy tools while conserving the environment.
• To economically empower and build capacities of families affected by disability, HIV and poverty.

Programs:
• Inclusive Education and Rehabilitation: Wisdom Hub Nursery & Primary School - This initiative is purposed to integrate special needs children with children that have no disabilities to advance peer to peer acceptance and support. That integration through inclusive learning, games, sports, recreation and social interaction goes a long way in building a tolerant society for persons with disabilities.
• Empowerment and Capacity Building through community Outreach Program: We work with parents of special needs children, the local council authorities, community and national level leaders to advocate and champion the causes of special needs people.
• Awareness and Advocacy: We visit community schools to educate pupils and teachers about the rights and potential of PWDs. Further area opinion leaders, local authorities, police and religious leaders are also sensitized about PWDs issues. SCSP through its community outreach team and volunteers arrange awareness-raising resource material for the target groups to be educated under different themes.

Projects:
• Parents Support: Improving livelihoods: We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of parents through vocational skills engagement to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty.; Advocacy and Lobbying change-makers on issues that affect parents of children with disability negatively in their communities
• Hands-on Skills: Beneficiaries under this project are inducted through a 5 month course in tailoring skills. During this training, beneficiaries learn and develop skills in making shirts, trousers, skirts, school uniforms,Sweaters, African traditional wear such as: Kanzu, Gomesi, and Kitenge.
• Farming & Agriculture: Beneficiaries under this project initially receive a month training course on managing poultry as an income-generating activity. Follow-up training is also provided during implementation of the poultry project. Participants are given practical advice on preparing suitable structures to raise their poultry stock and when these are ready, they are then provided with the chicks.
• Micro-finance: The project was initiated to empower people with disabilities, families affected by disability, and parents of children with special needs and later joined by the community to embrace inclusion in the rural areas of Mpigi. Each group composed of 30 members have already receive training in money literacy skills and engage into small scale business (merchandise stalls) within their compounds, roadside market stalls, hand crafts and farming to improve on their well-being and family income.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.