What We Do
Our Services
The best life possible
Empower Persons with Disabilities Ethiopia Association (EPDEA) is a national charity providing services for people with disabilities. Our staff teams support people to live the best life possible.We find ways for people to own their futures. Our specialist teams use their skills and expertise to deliver services to people including those with the most complex of needs.We find ways for people to own their futures. The activities of the company must be conducted in the furtherance of its purpose and will include:
Empowering people with disability to take control of their own lives by providing information, advice, education and mutual support, by providing personal advocacy support to individuals and groups whose rights have been violated, and by identifying and promoting social change to realize human rights. The services will not be limited to members of the company;
working with and for all people with all types of impairment/disability, and with all specific disability population groups, including women with disability, children and young people with disability, First Peoples with disability, and people with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds;
advocating on behalf of people with disability, particularly where our rights have been infringed to address the discrimination, marginalization, poverty and human rights abuses to which people with disability are often subject in our community;
working on issues that concern all people with disability, learning from and linking our individual experiences to create comprehensive agendas for social change that leave no-one behind;
A fundamental commitment to self-help, mutual support and self-representation for all people with disability, by all people with disability;
Encouraging the development and coordination of self-help groups of people with disability;
Fostering communication, cooperation and partnerships with other community organizations with similar aims;
All such things as are lawful and conducive to the attainment of the purpose of the company.
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.
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