Right Above Charity Initiative

Empowering Lives Beyond Temporary Solutions

This campaign is committing to accelerate public action for inclusive development for Persons with Disabilities in key facets of our National life such as education, healthcare, cultural inclusion, social justice, economic empowerment, political relevance as well as access to public infrastructure and services etc.
Under the auspices of ‘RIGHTS ABOVE CHAIRITY; INCLUSIVE NIGERIA FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES CAMPAIGN’, a consortium convened by NAPVID, aimed at forging working partnership with Civil Society Groups and leading organisations of Persons With Disabilities across the nation, is in place to drive inclusiveness in governance and development.
The consortium periodically focuses on such contemporary concerns in families, society and government that prevent the acceptance, assimilation or integration of PWDs into the polity, and recommend appropriate reparations for action and attention.
This is adopted as a means of mainstreaming disability issues as an integral part of relevant strategies for sustainable development.

Empowering Lives Beyond Temporary Solutions

The rights Above Charity Campaign, regularly organize stimulating lectures, seminars, symposia and other activities that will help the public to put in proper perspective issues of disabilities.

For instance, Further to the Rights Above Charity Campaign, NAPVID in 2011, conceptualized and instituted the NAPVID ‘RIGHTS ABOVE CHARITY LECTURE’, to commemorate the December 3rd UN Day for Persons with Disabilities, principally to underscore the civil, social, cultural, economic and political rights of persons with disabilities to cohabit in an egalitarian society anchored on freedom, justice and equality. This is in tune with the UN sustainable development goals and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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