About us

BACKGROUND

 

Our Work

Mainly our work focuses on the empowerment of persons with disabilities with business engagement and economic well-being not with charity model.

Based on the above major concept area, we are now working the empowerment of persons with disabilities by selecting one business type in Ethiopia where all the raw materials and expertise could be found. “This business is a carpet making business”. In order to involve many unemployed persons with disabilities and low income generating individuals, we have created a sustainable business value chain and market linkage in the world. 

This business basically works more closely with the private business owners and persons with disabilities organizations and concerned local government stakeholders in the sector.

The value chain focuses on the carpet business, where the carpets are produced in different stages starting from sheep rearing and at the end exporting to the international communities in partnership with privately owned business companies based in Ethiopia and Finland to different part of the world. Amongst of the few value chain activities; there are organizations of persons with disabilities working on a sheep rearing to collect to supply the raw material wool to the other DPO who engaged in a wool processing which is followed by the carpet making workshop owner DPOs and then exported by private companies to Finland. Indeed, we have created a job opportunity for more than 300 persons with disabilities in Ethiopia under one business value chain program.

This is what our organization does right now in Ethiopia with the support of Abilis Foundation from Finland.

Real Inclusion Matters in Disability Inclusion!

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Our Vision

We have a vision of a socially just, accessible and inclusive community, in which the human rights, belonging, contribution, potential and diversity of all people with disability are recognized, respected and celebrated with pride.

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Our Mission

EPDEA intends to work for persons with disabilities empowerment through building their economic, educational and vocational skills advancement along with promoting disability inclusive innovations that eases their business doing and promoting conducive working environment for persons with disabilities in order to have a better life quality.
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Our Core Values

We believe that persons with disability: We believe that people with disability, irrespective of age, gender, cultural or linguistic background, religious beliefs, geographic location, sexuality, or the nature, origin, or degree of disability:

  • have a right to life and to bodily integrity;
  • are entitled to a decent standard of living, an adequate income and to lead active and satisfying lives;
  • are people first, with human, legal, and service user rights that must be recognized and respected;
  • are entitled to the full enjoyment of our citizenship rights and responsibilities;
  • are entitled to live free from prejudice, discrimination and vilification;
  • contribute substantially to the intellectual, cultural, economic and social diversity and well-being of our community;
  • possess many skills and abilities, and have enormous potential for life-long growth and development;
  • are entitled to live in, and be a part of, the diversity of the community;

About Us

Empower Persons with Disabilities Ethiopia Association (EPDEA) was registered as an Ethiopian Residents Civil Societies Organization on 11th February 2020 by the CSO Agency, Registration No. 4762, under Proclamation No. 1113/2019.

 

 

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Visiting address

5 kilo 200m to the right hand side of Shoa Dabo, In front of Yemisrach Center, Alme Building 1st floor, Office No. 110

Addis Ababa , Ethiopia.

Tel: +251-118112166

PO Box: 31 845

Email: info@epdea.org

website: www.epdea.org

 

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