Light for Disability Transformation (LIDIT)

By Atiku Manex Jamali
Uploaded By ConnexUs Staff
Created 09/28/2022 Type: Blog Region: Africa Location: Uganda Language: English Theme:
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Light for Disability Transformation (LIDIT) is a community-based organization. We strive to remove barriers to inclusive development, create opportunities, unlock potentials for full participation of persons with impairment in community development.

 

“We place their interests and ingenuity at the Centre of their development. We remove barriers and unlock their potentials to co-create change that they own and lead.”

 

Hear directly from Atiku Manex Jamali, Program Manager at LIDIT:

 

See our brochure or read below to learn more:

Who are we?

Light for Disability Transformation – LIDIT is a Community Based Organization registered with Koboko District Local Government and Uganda Registrar Service Bureau – URSB (Reg. No: 80020003204034). LIDIT focuses its activities to promote an inclusive Social – economic and cultural system that gives equal opportunity to individual members of the community to participate in their Development. LIDIT positions itself as a voice and strength to persons with all forms of impairment, and offers tailored programs suitable to unlock skills and potentials of persons with impairment and wider community to achieve sustainable livelihoods, self-reliance, equitable and transformed communities.

 

What do we do?

Our strategic objectives are aligned to making contributions in creating a community which every woman/girl, persons with impairment, refugees & underprivileged members of the community enjoys gender equality, inclusion and ensure that all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment are removed. LIDIT is striving to build communities with equitable access to education, to health care and social protection, were physical, mental and social well-being, human rights, enhanced access to renewable and sustainable energy & livelihoods, safe and drinking water are assured both at Refugees/Internally Displaced & Host Communities.

 

Our Vision

A community where people with disabilities, and the underprivileged members of the community are given equal opportunity, treated with dignity and recognized as important contributors to socio-economic development of their communities.

Vision Statement: Enabled people and Communities for Sustainable Development.

Our Mission Statement

To build self-sufficient communities through involvement and continuous reconstruction of human experiences, aspirations and mobilization of the desired resources to achieve inclusive & a sustainable development.

Our Motto

Bringing Potentialities to Realization.

Core Values

Responsiveness
Inclusion
Accountability
Novelty

Strategic Thematic Areas

  • Community Rehabilitation
  • Sustainable Livelihoods (Agribusiness, Life skills, Vocational skills training, Community Microfinancing).
  • Sustainable Environment & natural resource use.
  • Community Health Care (SRH, HIV/AIDS/COVID 19).
  • Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
  • Social Protection (Trauma Counselling, GBV).
  • Relief & Humanitarian Response
  • Government & human Rights (Democracy, Rule of Law)
  • Institutional Capacity Enhancement.
Contact Us:

Phone: +256782070975
Email: [email protected]

 

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