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Short Summary |
This paper is a collection of case studies of
disabled women who are engaged in small enterprise in Addis Ababa
and the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. The paper was written in preparation
for an International Labour Organisation (ILO) Project - "Developing
Entrepreneurship among Women with Disabilities" - which was implemented
in Ethiopia by the Ethiopian Federation of Persons with Disabilities
(EFPD) and the Tigray Disabled Veterans Association (TDVA). The project
was designed to promote economic empowerment among women with disabilities
and women with disabled dependants, by providing training in micro-enterprise
skills, arranging access to vocational skills training opportunities
and credit, and supporting women in starting a business activity or
developing an existing one. In preparation for the project, members
of the EFDP and TDVA compiled case studies of disabled women who were
already engaged in small enterprise. The case studies feature women
with impaired vision, hearing, and mobility, as well as women who
have had leprosy, and mothers of children with learning disabilities.
The case studies are intended to speak for themselves, using the women's
own words to provide a vivid testimony of their situation. |
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