We work to ensure that Nigerians living with disabilities are not left behind — delivering assistive devices, economic inclusion programmes, and advocacy for equal rights across all 36 states and the FCT.
Nigeria is home to an estimated 25 million persons with disabilities (PWDs) — approximately one in seven of the population. Despite the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act of 2018, enforcement remains negligible. Most PWDs face multiple, compounding disadvantages: exclusion from education and employment, inaccessible healthcare facilities, stigma within families and communities, and near-total absence from policy and programme design.
In conflict-affected and IDP contexts, persons with disabilities face acute vulnerability. Evacuation systems, emergency shelters, and food distribution points rarely account for mobility, sensory, or cognitive impairments — leaving this population among the last to receive help and the first to be forgotten.
Grace & Grey's disability programme is built on the social model of disability — the understanding that disability is caused not by individual impairment but by the barriers that society fails to remove. Our work therefore targets both the individual (with assistive devices, healthcare linkages, and livelihood support) and the environment (through community sensitisation, advocacy, and accessibility improvement projects).
We partner with state government disability offices, community-based disability organisations, and the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) to maximise reach and avoid duplication. Every intervention is co-designed with PWDs themselves — because nothing about us without us.
Distributing wheelchairs, crutches, white canes, and hearing aids to PWDs in underserved communities who cannot access or afford them through formal channels.
Providing business grants, vocational training, and market linkages for PWDs to achieve financial independence and contribute to their households and communities.
Campaigning for the full implementation of the DAPD Act, building disability-inclusive policies at state level, and empowering PWDs to advocate for themselves.
Connecting PWDs to healthcare providers, supporting rehabilitative services, and working to make facilities physically and attitudinally accessible.
Supporting children with disabilities to access and remain in school, and providing adult PWDs with skills training in digital literacy and market-relevant trades.
Running sensitisation programmes that reduce stigma, shift community attitudes, and build the social infrastructure for genuine inclusion at local level.
"Before the programme came to Anambra, I was treated like a burden. Now I have a tailoring business and a voice in my community."— Emmanuel, PWD beneficiary, Anambra State
Disability inclusion is not a separate agenda — it is the heart of equitable development. When we invest in PWDs, we invest in families, communities, and an economy that works for everyone.
In 2025, our disability programme reached beneficiaries across Anambra, Edo, and Taraba states, distributing assistive devices, running livelihood workshops, and engaging local government on barrier removal.
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