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Mission

Our mission is to provide a platform to mainstream livelihood opportunities for persons with disability.

We Believe That

Hence collaboration is the way forward. Everyone is good at something.

Enable Academy provides training, resources, services and interactive tools for persons with disability to make them ready for livelihood opportunities. Persons with disability include persons with visual impairment, hearing impairment, physical disability, autism, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular dystrophy, learning disabilities and others.

Enable Academy offers employers awareness, inclusion models, best practices, services, peer connects and interactive tools for hiring persons with disability.

Enable Academy offers awareness, capacity building programs and interactive tools for enablers like NGOs, mainstream institutions, parents, academia, volunteers, service providers and product vendors.

It also offers campaigns and services to inter connect persons with disability, employers and other stakeholders.

Enable Academy offers a collaborative platform through campaigns and social media forums. The best way to learn and scale is to involve stakeholders in action oriented projects. Campaigns are smaller projects where all stakeholders can take part and contribute towards livelihoods of persons with disability.

Our Team

Diversity is our strength
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” - Helen Keller

Our team members

We have developed a framework of disability profile & segmentation to understand the various supply & demand challenges. Based on our learnings, we developed various livelihood models to include all kinds of disabilities. Watch this video to understand more.

Self-employment and entrepreneurship model in rural areas with the help of training centers like Rudseti and Rseti.  Mobilization through village rehabilitation workers, District disabled welfare officer, Multi-purpose rehabilitation workers.
                  Skilled wage employment model for semi urban and urban areas through university model, Collaborative Trainings in partnership with employers, Incubation Center for outsourced work, Contract jobs, work at home options or sheltered work environments for persons with severe disability.Manual wage Employment model enables pwds with no computer skills in urban and rural areas. Job fairs mobilize candidates for both skilled wage employment and manual wage employment.

We have developed a framework of disability profile and segmentation to understand the various supply and demand challenges. Based on our learnings, we have developed various models to include all kinds of disabilities in the Livelihood landscape.

By reaching the unreached, we have formed new models by studying local requirements. As a large population is in the rural areas, self-employment is a good choice for economic independence. Hence, an entrepreneurship development program was introduced with the help of mainstream entrepreneurship training centers like the RUDSETI/RSETIs. Mobilization of the candidates was done with the help of the state government’s Village Rehabilitation Workers, who work under the leadership of District Disabled Welfare Officer and the Multi Rehabilitation Workers. A training program for entrepreneurship development for persons with disability was developed and introduced by the National Academy for RUDSETI and EnAble India.

A business case for hiring persons with disability, employee sensitization, Job Analysis, Initial handholding, Workplace Solutions and post placement follow ups, have made it a good case for employers to hire persons with disability and find them as a productive workforce.

We have conducted Job fairs to find wage employment in urban and semi-urban areas. We have been reaching out to persons with disability via the university model, Collaborative Trainings in partnership with employers. Incubation Center for outsourced work, Contract jobs, work at home options or sheltered work environments for persons with severe disability are various other models that have been created.

These livelihood models, which have been developed, have seen various successes and learnings. This can be replicated across the country for helping find gainful employment for all kind of persons with disability and across geographies.

Partners

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