Developmental Milestones for the Disabled in Communities

To boost the livelihoods of the most marginalised disabled people through innovative, educative and technological community based empowerment programs that support social inclusiveness at all levels of society.

DMDC, applies home grown solutions in solving problems for marginalised groupings through capacity building projects that embrace technological advancements such as Facebook and Whatsapp. This helps to hamper dependence and serves as informal employment and reduces the consequences of destituteness in communities.

About 15% of the world's population lives with some form of disability, of whom 2-4% experience significant difficulties in functioning. In Zambia, about about 2 million women and men or 15 per cent of the population, have a disability. The problem is that disabled people are living in poverty and are among the most stigmatized and marginalised people on earth. They often live in isolation and are excluded from their communities, from the education system, from healthcare and other vital services. Sometimes, they’re even hidden away by their families. One of the contributing factors include fear of being stigmatised.

In a quest to directly and meaningfully improve lives, The target population sample encompasses all disabled people who are highly marginalised in our local community setup. Just as the saying goes like ' A disability is not an inability', after assessing their needs, and depending on the physical challenges one may present with, participants are asked to choose from a variety of activities to perform such as gardening, poultry, aquaculture and animal husbandry which serve as an informal employment inculcative of educational content on the aforementioned activities psychologically consumable. This boosts the self-esteem of the participants in a community fostering social inclusiveness and shared prosperity.

Developmental Milestones for the Disabled in Communities - is a milestone in understanding the needs of the highly marginalised disabled people in communities.

This solution employs home grown solutions in addressing the needs of the highly marginalised disabled people. activities are selected in line with gardening, poultry, aquaculture and animal husbandry by which a reasonable income is generated to generate a base for other basic essentials of life.

Furthermore, the solution employs already existing technology such as Whatsapp and Facebook in which groups are created according to activity preferences by the participants which helps to make a certain level of expertise depending on the group, e.g poultry, gardeners, aquaculture . 

The project provides seedlings for gardening and manure derived from animal rearing, and  basic essentials necessary for the viability of the project.

The solution is innovative in the sense that it endeavors to incorporate already existing technology in home grown solutions that serve to address a spectrum of problems affecting marginalised disabled people in communities.

The solution employs tech-based educative materials that enhances the cognitivity of participants thereby promoting  efficiency of the physically challenged in communities.

The core technology that this solution utilizes is facebook and whatsapp in which groups of people including the physically challenged are grouped in terms of preference from the home grown solutions such as gardening, poutry, aquaculture and animal husbandry.

The existing technologies serve as a fora for communication on different topics on the aforementioned home grown solutions as well as any new discoveries on how best improvements  can be made to the already existing solutions. They also enhance the levels of interaction amongst community members.

The  solution will address the problem in the sense that the communities' level of interaction will be enhanced by the the team work spirit in fostering success in the project thereby hampering marginalisation and poverty amongst the disabled people.

The number of people being served is

•  Currently: 150
•  One year: 1500
•  Five years: 15000

Developmental Milestones for the Disabled in Communities aim is;

• Develop a feasible and viable plan to serve a 36 months pilot project to help the highly marginalised disabled people.
• To Secure funding to support project development costs and later pilot-project funding for project implementation.

• Unfriendly government policies that do not address the poor implementation of disability policy.

• To develop strong governmental connections to encourage policy change that support empowerment of the disabled people

A minimum of 6 and are all full-time.

My team has a background of indigenous farming, which has provided a base for professional competence evidenced by skills in farming, chicken rearing, gardening and animal husbandry. Drawing an example from an earlier recruited team encompassing five physically challenged participants and had the best yield of crops from our home grown solutions, and had earned the best skills of farming. 

For innovation and financial sustainability

For innovation and financial sustainability

USAID helping with financial capabilities

use the fund for the intended purpose meant

upgrade the solution more technologically

For innovation and financial sustainability

For innovation and financial sustainability

For innovation and financial sustainability

For innovation and financial sustainability

For innovation and financial sustainability