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😴 DRF team is on a wellbeing break from December 23 to January 1, 2025. 🫶🏽 Collective care and rest are important feminist values for inclusion. As we pause to recharge, we wish you a restful wrap up to 2024 and a joyful beginning to 2025.

Inclusive health in action! Thanks to our successful advocacy efforts & collaboration with the Ministry of Health, we secured mosquito nets for Persons with Disabilities in Nakivale Refugee Settlement. #RefugeesWithDisabilities #MalariaPrevention #HealthForAll

🖊️ What are GDS Commitments & why do they matter? Commitments at GDS turn pledges into real action for disability inclusion, pushing governments, businesses & civil society to create lasting change. The best commitments will be showcased at #GDS2025! More details⬇️

📢 We’re Hiring a consultant! 📢 🚀 ARD is developing a Data Protection & Privacy Policy to safeguard refugee data & confidentiality. 📝 Apply before: 6th Feb 2025 📌 Learn more 👉 ardofuganda.org/wp/uncategoriz… #DataPrivacy #RefugeeRights #ARDUganda

📢 We’re Hiring! 📢 🚀 ARD seeks a consultant to develop a Reasonable Accommodation & Accessibility Policy for refugees with disabilities. 📝 Apply before: 6th Feb 2025 📌 Learn more 👉 ardofuganda.org/wp/uncategoriz… #AccessibilityForAll #DisabilityRights #ARDUganda

🚀 RE-ADVERTISING: WE’RE HIRING! ARD is seeking a consultant to develop a Project Information Management System (PIMS/software). 📍 Location: Kampala, Uganda ⏳ Deadline: 6th Feb 2025 Apply & Learn More: 🔗ardofuganda.org/wp/uncategoriz… 🔹 Women & PWD`s are encouraged to apply.

📢 Empowering refugees with disabilities! Thanks to funding from yarid, ARD has been training persons with disabilities & their caregivers in tailoring & arts & crafts over the past 3 months. 🎨🧵 A step toward self-reliance! #Inclusion #RefugeesWithDisabilities #ARD

We were honored to host YARID for a courtesy visit to our vocational & hand skills training project, funded by YARID under the SEED grant to RLO`s✨ We look forward to continued collaboration in empowering refugees with disabilities! 💙 #RefugeeEmpowerment #InclusionMatters

NUDIPU in collaboration with Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development successfully consulted persons with disabilities on the Global Disability Summit (GDS) commitments for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ The GDS Summit is a mechanism through which countries seek to revitalise the implementation of the CRPD by committing to making-

🚀 Exciting Job Training Opportunity! Are you 18+ and ready to gain job skills? YARID Uganda is offering a Job Training & Placement program! 📚💼 📍 Location: ARD Premises, Najjanankumbi Close, Masanyaraazi 📅 Start Date: 05.03. 2025 ⏳ Duration: 2 months

Strengthening ARD! Today, ARD held a Validation Meeting for our newly developed policies & systems under the Institutional Strengthening Project, funded by UN Women Uganda Women's Peace & Humanitarian Fund In action—reviewing, refining & ensuring strong governance for refugees with with disabilities.

Today, REAL PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE(RPDI) in partnership with other stakeholders and Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) celebrates the International Women's Day under the theme "ACCELERATE ACTION FOR GENDER EQUALITY" at the KCCA City Hall.

Marking #IWD2025 under the theme ‘Accelerate Action for Gender Equality’, Association of Refugees with Disability joined key partners—UNHCR Uganda, Norwegian Refugee Council, IRC - International Rescue Committee, and the Govt of Uganda for a powerful celebration hosted at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA). Together, we uplift woman’s voice

Happening Now: We’re officially launching our one-year project on Inclusive Employment & Livelihoods for Refugees with Disabilities, with collaboration with @NUDIPU_Uganda The kickoff meeting is taking place today at Hotel Africana #DisabilityInclusion #InclusiveEmployment

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗡airobi, 𝗠ombasa, 𝗞akuma/𝗞alobeyei, 𝗡akuru & 𝗗adaab. Training: 9th - 13th June 2025 Location: Nairobi Deadline: 23rd May 2025 at 2:00pm EAT. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Inclusive employment matters! @ARD_Uganda led an advocacy and awareness engagement in #KyakaIIRefugeeSettlement (Kyegegwa District), bringing together partners workingfor refugees, govt reps, and other stakeholders to push for livelihood access for refugees with disabilities.

The I-ACCESS project continues in Kyangwali! Alight World Food Programme Office of the Prime Minister - Uganda & others joined a 2-day training to push for inclusive employment for refugees with disabilities. Policy reform & awareness are key. Thanks, Disability Rights Fund🙌 #IACCESS #InclusionMatters #pwds

Last week in Kaborogota, Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, we raised awareness under the I-ACCESS project—urging parents to enroll children with disabilities in school. Education is the first step to formal employment and inclusion. #IACCESS #InclusiveEmploymentForPWDs #KyakaII #ARD

This push for inclusive employment for refugees with disabilities is about so much more than just jobs; it's about empowerment, dignity, and recognizing the valuable contributions everyone can make to society. A truly valuable initiative in Kyangwali!

Unlock your future with education! Are you a #Sudanese refugee in Uganda? Apply for a fully funded undergraduate scholarship from Windle International Uganda & UNHCR Uganda . 📅 Deadline: 1 June 2025 To apply visit: windleuganda.org #Scholarship #RefugeeEducation #SudaneseYouth