Under the Rehabilitation Program, SCSP ventures with the slogan ‘Ability From Disability’ to deliver early intervention, therapy, academic instruction for children with special needs and equipping them with self-care and self support skills, spiritual support, counselling and guidance. Therapy services include; physical, occupational and speech therapy which are based on the international standards and practices. Physical therapists address the gross motor needs of the student such as learning to walk; occupational therapists address the fine motor and daily living skills such as writing, eating, dressing; and speech therapists address all areas of speech and communication skills.  These services are provided for all of the organization’s children and for individuals of the local community who are in need of this kind of service. More Programs Rehabilitation Inclusive Education Empowerment Awareness and Advocacy

According to a recent UN report, more than 1 billion people or 14% of the world population are living with some form of disability but many are not aware that they even have disabilities. Around the world PWD’s face physical, social, economic and attitudinal barriers that exclude them from participating fully and effectively as equal members of society. They are disproportionately represented and are among the world’s poorest and lack equal access to basic resources, such as education, employment, health care, social and legal support as well as having a higher rate of mortality. In spite of this situation disability has remained largely invisible in the mainstream development agenda and its processes. In Uganda it’s a lot worse according to our experience. Right from the drivers and riders, there is no respect for persons with disabilities. Many road users cause harm and death to persons with disabilities while they send others into the states of disability due to reckless use of roads. Special Children Special People has further discovered abandonment of children with disabilities. Many are totally ignored by their own parents who lock them into the houses while the parents go about their business. Others send them to the village to live with grandparents, having been given up as impossible to help. There are unconfirmed reports SCSP received that other parents even kill their children when they are discovered to have severe forms of special needs, believing it to be a curse. A lot of marriages have broken down because of births of special children. Many husbands have abandoned their wives and other children because of the birth of a special needs child, believing the child to be a support burden. Rampant poverty does not make things any easier. All in all, this state of affairs makes it crucial to conduct continuous awareness campaign to curb social intolerance and community stigma directed at persons with disabilities. The purpose is to create an awareness-raising campaign to build an understanding and tolerant community integration of persons with disabilities. When supported, the program has lasting impacts on the lives of special needs children and society. Ignorance Of Special Needs Issues, Stigma and Hostility by the Community. Due to limited information on special needs issues, communities have limited understanding, acceptance, support and integration of persons with disabilities. Children with disabilities are locked up in homes while their parents go about other routines like visits to the market and friends. No consideration of the effects of this abandonment registers with the parents or the community that indifferently looks on. Parental Indifference In Raising Special Needs Children Because there is no parent who gets prepared that they are to give birth to special needs children, many just shockingly find themselves in scenarios with special needs children. It takes long for the shock to wear off and by the time it does, a lot of time has gone where early therapeutic intervention would have been instituted on the child. Poor Mass Media Message Packaging While some messages on special needs issues are aired through the media, they lack comprehensive information that would benefit the viewers or listeners. Additionally, they hardly last a minute and viewers or listeners cannot ask questions to meet the gaps they haven’t understood. The messages therefore remain shallow and fail to uproot the core challenge that the community is largely ignorant on special needs issues. Summation Of Need Despite the odds spelt out above, SCSP’s understanding is that if the awareness is continued further, there will be less ignorance about issues of persons with disabilities, which will result in integration, acceptance and support by the community. Schools and religious Institutes 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. Target groups are contacted and mobilized to attend the trainings through local leaders and authorities, school heads, the police, leaflets, and road sound drives Sustainability of this initiative is maintained by training community coordinators chosen from the family members or teachers to carry on the awareness work with the input of SCSP until goals are achieved. These trainers will routinely receive refresher training at the SCSP head offices and materials to hand out to the beneficiaries as and when availability warrants. Please support SCSP, this awareness-raising program and community/ family outreach goes along way in ensuring that the cause of persons with disabilities takes hold into the social conscience and community mindset, thereby providing integration, acceptance and support for special needs people and their causes. SCSP trusts that your input will go a long way in helping to fulfill the vision of assisting special needs people to live more fulfilling lives.

Special Children Special People (SCSP) works  to deliver welfare support to target beneficiaries and economic empowerment to solidly impact the communities in which we operate. 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. SCSP has a tagline ‘Realising the Potential of the Neglected, Transforming Lives’ with which we believe that vulnerable people can be fully integrated into the communities where they dwell and can further contribute to its advancement once empowered. We aim at empowering beneficiary poor and disability affected parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from their projects; to enable them meet the costs of basic needs such as: household utilities, food, fuel for lighting, clothing, and costs of their children’s schooling such as uniforms, books and exam fees. Beneficiaries meet once a week and taken through other craft-making training course sessions, in which they are shown how to make artistic use of locally available materials in their environment. SCSP also opened a craft shop along Buganda road to avail market for the variety of crafts made by women and children. Crafts developed for commercial purposes, including; Mats, Baskets, Tye & dye patterned cloth, Woven materials - wall, hangings, door rugs and ornaments, Beads, Cards etc The parents of children with disabilities are also supported to transform their individual micro-projects into a functional group business to access loans and save through the Village Saving and Loans Association (VSLA) Group. SCSP loans  them a start-up boost capital. Read more Young people and caretakers are trained in practical skills  which include Tailoring or  candle making. a) Tailoring Beneficiaries under this project are inducted through a 5 month course in tailoring to develop skills in making shirts, trousers, skirts, school uniforms,Sweaters, African traditional wear such as: Kanzu, Gomesi, and Kitenge. At the end of the skills empowerment training, the beneficiaries can either find employment in an established tailoring business or receive a sewing machine, on loan from SCSP, to begin self-employment. b) Candle making Parents of children with disabilities are trained to make various designs of candles; from the simple ones used for basic lighting in homes, to the more elaborate ones that also serve a decorative purpose in churches and for special occasions. In addition to these, the beneficiaries are also given skills to make candles that give off a mosquito-repellent scent, when they are burned. At the end of the training, the beneficiaries are then supported with capital to carry on with the candle-making as an economic activity over an initial 3-month period. By the end of the first 3 months, the beneficiaries are expected to be able to sustain their own project out of the project proceeds, without need for further capital from SCSP. Read more 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 project. Under 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. These are raised for 3-12 months, depending on whether they are used for egg or meat production.  Read more

Wisdom Hub Nursery & Primary School A school providing inclusive education with the slogan shine to excel’. This initiative is purposed to integrate special needs children with children that have no disabilities to advance peer to peer acceptance and support. This program is purposed to integrate special needs children with children that have no disabilities to advance peer to peer acceptance and support.   This integration through inclusive learning, games, sports, recreation and social interaction goes a long way in building a tolerant society for persons with disabilities. Children are enrolled into wisdom Nursery and Primary School to enable them become integrated with those without disability. More Programs Rehabilitation Inclusive Education Empowerment Awareness and Advocacy