Light for the World is an international disability and development organization whose vision is an inclusive society where no one is left behind. We enable crucial eye health services and help empower people with disabilities in some of the poorest regions of the world. Our programs include:
We focus on the poorest and hardest to reach because that is where we will have the biggest impact. We create change through local people, organizations, and structures because we want our impact to last. Light for the world is currently launching its first round of disability inclusion academy in Ethiopia.
About the disability inclusion academy
Disability Inclusion Academy is a fellowship program that aims at building the capacity of persons with disabilities to offer expertise on disability inclusion to mainstream organizations, public and private sector actors. This cohort specifically focuses on building the capacity of a selected group of persons with disabilities to support the disability inclusion project activities in selected towns of SNNP region. The program starts with a 2-day selection process followed by a 5-days training. Trainees will then be deployed to project implementation areas/districts and undergo mentoring and on-the-job coaching.
Successful participants will be certified/graduated. This certification process will take a maximum of 6 months. Certified facilitators become part of a pool of Disability Inclusion Facilitators (DIFs) and provide inclusion services to implementing partners in SNNPR (Omo, Arbaminch ) on a regular basis and based on pre-defined activities. There are an average of two activities/per month and each activity may take a maximum of 4-5 days.
Some of the key responsibilities:
Employment Type: volunteer basis with compensation based on activities performed/per month.
Required qualification: