Black text on yellow screen reads, "While Uganda has ratified some of the most progressive disability laws and policies in the world, Ugandans with disabilities are still being left behind."
According to a U.N. Health Survey in 2006, an estimated 80 percent of Ugandans with disabilities live in poverty – almost double the country’s overall percentage.
Kose Fatuma, a Ugandan woman with a disability, rides a three-wheeled bicycle down a dirt road lined by small wooden buildings in Budondo, Uganda. She powers the bike by turning the pedals with her hands. A small child pushes the bike from behind.
Kose sits in front of a brick wall, surrounded by green plastic fishing traps.
Kose walks on her hands and knees outside her home. Her son comes to help her move two fishing traps.
Kose's son helps her move a large bag of rice to the front of their home.
A wide shot of Kose's home. It is a small brick room with one side open to the street. Kose's hand-powered bicycle is parked outside.
Close-ups of Kose weaving fish traps.
A close-up of Kose weaving a fish trap.
Kose's son pours water into a metal pot on top of a small concrete stove.
Black text on yellow screen reads, "In the workplace, research shows that only 1.3 percent of formally employed Ugandans are disabled." According to Light for the World 2018.
Kalule Rashid, chairperson of the Uganda National Association of Cerebral Palsy, sits in a plastic chair in front of a pink wall, speaking to camera.
A close-up of hands filling out a paper job application.
A close-up of two people shaking hands.
A woman walks into a small store, and speaks to a man behind the counter.
Three people lift a person in a wheelchair up a flight of stairs.
A photo of the Ministry of Internal Affairs office in Uganda.
Video of concrete stairs in a stairwell.
The person in the wheelchair being lifted by three people reaches the top of the staircase.
Black text on yellow screen reads, "In Uganda, public financing for inclusive education accounts for only 0.1% of the education budget. Access is limited, and inaccessible infrastructure and learning materials along with inadequate teacher capacity impact retention and quality.” According to The World Bank 2020.
A pan across the campus of Spire Road Primary School, in the Diocese of Jinja, Uganda. One-story buildings surround a courtyard with trees and bushes. Children walk around outside.
Edward Senyende, head teacher of the school, walks alongside the camera.
A close-up of a student typing on a Braille machine.
Three students type at Braille machines.
A pan across the yard outside a school building.
A student lifts a wooden chair to bring it inside a classroom.
A girl with albinism fills up a bucket of water from a tap.
A pan across the school yard, showing other students filling up buckets of water.
Kalule Rashid speaks to camera.
Black text on yellow screen reads, "In Uganda, a program known as Inclusion Works is working to create inclusive formal employment pathways for persons with disabilities."
Kalule Rashid speaks to camera.
The inside of a classroom filled with posters and drawings at St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf in Nebbi Diocese, Uganda.
Martha Mutesi, a Ugandan woman wearing a white shirt, sits in the classroom, using sign language to communicate with someone off-camera. Mutesi is a teacher and Inclusion Works participant.
Mutesi holds and gestures to a poster with pictures showing different body parts.
Mutesi arranges bags of food in the classroom.
Mutsei signs in front of a wall with drawings of animals and parts of the body. A young girl stands, watching her.
Black text scrolls across yellow screen. "Uganda has been able to demonstrate great achievements to secure and advance the rights of persons with disabilities through constitutional recognition of the inherent dignity of persons with disabilities and guarantees affirmative actions through the passing of the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2020, which recognizes the right of women with disabilities; and the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities without reservation.” A quote by Florence Ndagire, Chairperson of the UN Women regional Civil Society Advisory Group for Eastern and Southern Africa and the first visually impaired female lawyer in Uganda
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Made with support form the Disability Justice Project and the Disability Rights Fund.