WHAT WE DO

Programs and Services: What We Do/Plan to Do

    Education and Skill Development: HOCI works towards ensuring quality and inclusive education. This program strives to enhance the quality of teacher preparedness, parental involvement, educational assessments, and access to digital technologies to promote inclusive education.

    Employment Support: HOCI offers employment support services to facilitate the integration of persons with disabilities into the workforce i.e. vocational counseling, and advocacy for workplace accommodations to ensure equal opportunities.

    Healthcare and Rehabilitation: This includes assistive device provision, and accessible healthcare facilities.

    Assistive Technology Initiatives: HOCI is committed to bridging the technological gap by providing assistive devices and leveraging technology to enhance the independence and accessibility of persons with disabilities in education, employment, and daily living.

    Social Inclusion and Community Building: This program aims to foster a sense of belonging within the community, and creates a supportive network for persons with disabilities and their families.

    Economic Livelihoods Program: This Program is designed to empower persons with disabilities economically.

    Through these programs and services, the organization strives to enhance the overall well-being and socio-economic status of persons with disabilities, fostering a more inclusive and equitable society.

Programs and Service Delivery Approaches

We apply the social model of disability. This means we believe that disability occurs when an individual’s impairment is compounded by societal barriers that prevent that individual from fully participating in society. The model works on the premise that disability is a social construct arising through discrimination and oppression and so change is needed across society, not within an individual. Barriers to full inclusion typically fall into three main categories: environmental, institutional and attitudinal. Hold Community Initiative is focused on removing these barriers that restrict persons with disabilities from fulfilling their potential.
All of our work is grounded in a rights-based approach. This means we firmly believe that people with disabilities should enjoy the same equal rights as everybody else. We are guided by the principle that all people with disabilities should be able to participate in life on an equitable basis regardless of their abilities.
We adopt a twin-track approach to our disability-inclusive programming for persons with disabilities. This means we believe that inclusion is the correct and most effective way to actively mainstream disability into general programming and policies. While inclusion is the priority in our projects, we also acknowledge and support interventions that focus on specific individual needs. We identify that persons with disabilities are intrinsically disadvantaged and so their full inclusion often requires both mainstream and targeted interventions, and our twin-track approach tackles this.