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Africa’s First Assistive Technology Investment Fund Is Now Open: AT4D Launches the USD 500,000 Momentous Pilot Fund
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Africa’s First Assistive Technology Investment Fund Is Now Open: AT4D Launches the USD 500,000 Momentous Pilot Fund

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A milestone announcement landed in Africa’s disability innovation space this week. The Assistive Technologies for Disability Trust (AT4D), a Kenya-based nonprofit and the continent’s leading assistive technology accelerator, has partnered with the Judith Neilson Foundation to launch the Momentous Pilot Fund — Africa’s first dedicated early-stage investment initiative for assistive technology startups. The fund offers…

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Meet Nnanweobi Ikechukwu Augustine: The Founder of AblePath Africa Bridging the Information Gap in Disability Inclusion

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In Africa, opportunities for people with disabilities exist but they are often difficult to find. From grants and scholarships to policy updates and training programs, critical information is scattered across platforms, making access a challenge for those who need it most. To address this, Nnanweobi Ikechukwu Augustine launched AblePath Africa; a platform focused on making…

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SASSA Disability Grant 2026: R2,310 Monthly Payment – Eligibility, How to Apply, and What Beneficiaries Must Know

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For hundreds of thousands of South Africans living with disabilities, the monthly payment from the South African Social Security Agency is not just financial assistance, it is a lifeline. The SASSA Disability Grant provides the primary source of income for people who cannot work due to a medically confirmed disability, helping them cover food, transport,…

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Tanzania Country Focus: Social Housing, Oral Health, and the Growing Disability Inclusion Agenda in East Africa’s Largest Country

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Tanzania, with a population of over 60 million people across the mainland and Zanzibar, is East Africa’s most geographically expansive country. Its disability community is represented primarily by the Tanzania Federation of Disabled People’s Organisations, known as SHIVYAWATU, which coordinates advocacy and policy engagement across the country’s diverse regions and its unique mainland-island political structure….

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Ethiopia Country Focus: Disability, Labour Force Exclusion, and the Fight for Inclusion in Africa’s Second-Largest Nation

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Ethiopia is Africa’s second most populous country, home to over 120 million people. With an estimated disability prevalence of around six percent, that translates to more than seven million Ethiopians living with disabilities — a population larger than the entire population of many African countries. The scale of the inclusion challenge in Ethiopia is enormous….

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Uganda Country Focus: Africa’s Most Disability-Inclusive Constitution — and the Gap Between Law and Life

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Uganda occupies a unique position in the African disability rights landscape. Its 1995 Constitution explicitly recognises the rights of persons with disabilities including reserved parliamentary seats for disability representatives making it one of the most formally inclusive constitutional frameworks on the continent. Uganda was also one of the early ratifying states of the African Disability…

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South Africa’s Housing Regulator Takes a Historic Step: SHRA Hosts First Disability Inclusion Dialogue in Gqeberha

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Housing is not simply shelter. For persons with disabilities, it is the foundation on which everything else employment, education, health, social participation either becomes possible or impossible. An inaccessible home is not just uncomfortable. It is a barrier to the world. South Africa has long acknowledged this in policy language. What has been missing, in…

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Union Bank Nigeria Puts Women with Disabilities at the Centre of Its 2026 International Women’s Month Campaign

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Corporate disability inclusion campaigns in Nigeria often exist at the level of statement. A press release, a social media post, a token appearance by a disability representative at an event primarily designed for other audiences. What Union Bank of Nigeria did during International Women’s Month 2026 was different — not because it was perfect, but…

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Global Fund for Children: Grants for Community Organisations Serving Children with Disabilities in Africa

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Of all the groups within the disability community, children with disabilities face perhaps the most compounded barriers. They are excluded from schools, denied healthcare, subject to harmful cultural beliefs, and frequently invisible in both official statistics and national policy. In Africa, where fewer than ten percent of children with disabilities attend school and where disability…

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