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ABOUT HIFWYD

Who we are

Hope Inspired Foundation for Women and Youths with Disabilities (HIFWYD) is a woman-led Organization established on 27th February 2015 and registered as an Organization of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Abuja, Nigeria with (RC No. 75802). The organization was born from personal experiences of the founder, who acquired a disability at the age of 11, owing to poor medical attention and struggled with discrimination and social acceptance from the stages of being a girl to adulthood.

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Our Mission

HIFWYD is committed to promoting rights, inclusion and empowerment of women, girls and youths with disabilities through advocacy, capacity-building, livelihood support and public engagement.

Our Vision

HIFWYD envision a society, were women and youths regardless of disability or any circumstances can actualize their potentials and live their dreams!

Core Values

HIFWYD is guided by these values and we hold dear to them. Self-Worth, Impact, Accountability, Integrity and Inclusivity.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

A robust M&E framework that will strengthen HIFWYD’s capacity to comply with operational policies and meet with programmatic targets is developed and implemented.

Women, girls and youth with disabilities encounter less attitudinal, institutional and environmental barriers as a result of Increased and robust public engagements on their rights and inclusion.

Strategic tools, operational policies and guidelines are developed and strengthened for the purpose of improving HIFWYD’s institutional capacity to deliver on its strategic goals and objectives.

Beneficiaries, clients and stakeholders receive and make effective use of comprehensive capacity-strengthening programs geared towards promotion and sustenance of advocacies and appropriate policy and programmatic responses to issues that affect women, girls and youth with disabilities.

Evidence-based advocacies lead to establishment of Policy-driven programs, services and interventions which support rights protection, social inclusion and economic empowerment for women, girls and youth with disabilities across geopolitical areas covered by HIFWYD’s activities.

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Our Services

HIFWYD strongly commits to ensure that all its programs and operations uphold, support and promote the rights and human dignity of all persons including persons with disabilities by adopting the social model of disability and its tenets in line with principles and provisions of the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), Nigeria’s Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities Prohibition Act of 2018, the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As amended), and other relevant local and international statutes.
In line with local and international statutes, HIFWYD strongly upholds the rights of Persons with Disabilities to, by their choice, reside freely, and without any form of discrimination and exclusion in very safe, accessible, and inclusive human communities. For communities to be accessible and inclusive for Persons with Disabilities, members of such communities must be engaged to play their roles in promoting and sustaining inclusive practices; ensuring that specific needs of Persons with Disabilities are provided, while disability-inclusion is mainstreamed into all community development activities.
HIFWYD’s approach to achieving collective impact is through harmonizing collective efforts which can be realized through strategic partnership-building and effective stakeholders’ engagement. Promoting rights of Persons with Disabilities and inclusive development across all spheres of life are missions that can’t be achieve by single individuals or organizations. HIFWYD therefore realizes the need to mobilize and exchange human, material, financial and technical resources from and with other individuals and organizations respectively who share similar vision and goals.
HIFWYD takes sustainability as an approach beyond achieving mere continuity of program or project activities. Rather, the Foundation strongly commit to ensuring that all its programs and operations guarantee, as much as possible, and where necessary, the attainment of longterm impacts. Disability is largely a life-long experience which requires interventions that must be sustained in terms of continuity and impact. HIFWYD therefore explores and expands the scope of sustainability and ensure sustainability compliance across all aspects of its programing and operations.
Research and knowledge management— Building knowledge and/or gathering evidence about a particular issue or problem is critical to the design of possible solutions to address same. HIFWYD’s programs and operations are designed, planned, implemented, and evaluated based on knowledge and evidence.

Our Projects

Partnership for Disability Inclusive Local Governance PADILG (Jan-Dec 2024)

A 1-year project in Abuja, Lagos, Plateau, Gombe and Oyo States with funding from Disability Rights Fund (DRF/DRAF) which aims at promoting the institutionalization of disability inclusion through advocating for the adoption of the Local Government Disability Framework by Local Governments in the country.

World Connect Project (January-September 2024)

This project titled, “Empowering Creativity for Change” was awarded by World Connect. The aim of our “Empowering Creativity for Change” project is to equip 50 women and youths with disabilities, aged 18 to 40, with valuable skills in creative design, specifically focusing on the thriving T-shirt and branding industries.

Advancing Rights of Women with Disabilities in Ebonyi ARWE (April 2023)

An 18-month project with funding from Disability Rights Fund(DRF/DRAF) which aims to advance the rights of Women with Disabilities in Ebonyi State (ARWE); through strategic engagements and advocacies for legislative change i.e the enactment of the Ebonyi State Disability Bill.

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Testimonial

What People Say about our foundation

“ The Mental health challenges following the Covid19 pandemic were particularly hard on WGWDS. The InspireLife project, supported me to work through stress and other harmful thoughts I was dealing with, and equipped me with skills I needed to succeed “

Uzoamaka Asiegbu Participant of the Covid19 Response Project

“ I participated in hope inspired sexuality education tool. It was very impactful. I learn about sexual health and how to prevent unwanted pregnancy’s abuse and prevention of STI and STD. I now know the difference between sex and gender all thanks to Hope Inspired Foundation. “

Enekhai Celestina HIFWYD DRF Project

“ I got to know about HIFWYD 6 years after secondary school. My hope of furthering my education was revived with financial and emotional support from the foundation. I got admission and graduated with OND Mass Communication. “

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