Social and Economic Aid for Disabled (SEAD)

About us

Social and Economic Aid for the Disabled (SEAD) is a non government, non partisan and non-profit making organization. SEAD was established in 2012 as a disability pressure group and registered as a national organization in 2012.

Vision
A society where people with disabilities live fully integrated lives economically and socially.

Mission
To eliminate barriers to full social integration and increase employment, economic security, and health care for persons with disabilities. SEAD creates innovative programs and tools; conducts research, public education, training, and advocacy campaigns; and provides technical assistance.

Objectives:
• Mobilizing and organizing People with disabilities individual into solidarity groups.
• Promoting and protecting the rights of disabled people
• HIV/AIDS prevention among disabled community
• Build capacity of people with disabilities individuals and groups
• Collaborate with international Human rights organization disabilities rights

Activities
• Promotion of disabled people’s awareness on their rights and strategies to fight for and defend them. We run education seminars and organize advocacy activities.
• Enhancement of access of people with disabilities to social and economic services for self-development. we organize vocational and entrepreneurial skills training for the disabled
• Provision of health education. We run seminars for this purpose. So far we have been focusing on malaria prevention
• Promotion of disabled people awareness on HIV/AIDS whereby we conducted education seminar’s for the people with disabilities, Translation of different policy documents, brochures and leaflets related to HIV/AIDS from normal writing to Braille materials in order to enhance blinds access information.

Projects:
• Empowering the youth with disabilities to promote democratic governance: In 1999, Tanzania set out Vision 2025, which establishes a strategy to transform Tanzania into middle - income country. Good governance is an integral component of this. The 1999 National Framework for Good Governance (NFGG) detailed policy components of this strategy. Decentralization by Devolution (D by D) became a core strategy for delivery: with the aim of creating bottom-up planning processes and service delivery closer to the service users, district council and ward and village/street councils were given responsibility for shaping Development. The Tanzania Development Vision (2025) also enshrines the importance of good governance, participation, accountability and the rule of law.
• Women’s Economic Empowerment to people with disabilities in Tabora Region, Tanzania: Agriculture, including horticulture is a mainstay of development in Tanzania. With an annual growth rate of 4.2%, agriculture contributes to approximately one quarter of the GDP and provides employment to approximately three quarters of all Tanzanian workers. It is also an area where significant achievements can and must be made for Tanzania to continue to provide sufficient food of good quality for its population that is growing by more than one million people per year. Growth of the sector is not a desired luxury but a dire necessity.

Mabokela Saudi is the Executive Director of Social and Economic Aid for the Disabled (SEAD).

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