Community-based Disability Awareness & Support Program

80% of Afghan adults, and 17% of Afghan children, live with some form of disability.* In Afghanistan’s current humanitarian crisis, people with disabilities are some of the most vulnerable, especially children with disabilities.

In December 2021, ECI launched the Community-based Disability Awareness & Support Program to do the following in communities across Afghanistan:

• Raise awareness & share information about disability, sharing the belief that disability is not inability;

• Provide practical support & services to people with disabilities & families with disabled children;

• Provide emergency relief to families in need who have a disabled child or family member.

The program is being implemented in Nangarhar, Kabul, Herat, Mazar, Bamian and Balkh provinces and also features a national radio program on disability awareness.
 *References: Asia Foundation Model Disability Survey of Afghanistan 2020