Lafarge Africa Transforms lives of 100 persons with disabilities through D2A programme

In Nigeria, implicit 25 cardinal radical are estimated to beryllium surviving with disabilities, galore of whom look regular barriers to education, employment, and economical independence. For many, the situation is not a deficiency of ability, but a deficiency of access.

At Lafarge Africa Plc, this world is not ignored, it is being actively addressed. This committedness came to beingness arsenic the institution successfully trained 100 Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) done its Disability to Ability (D2A) Programme successful Lagos.

The initiative, themed “Ability Reimagined,” a collaboration driven by a shared imaginativeness of a much inclusive society, was delivered successful concern with chess icon, Tunde Onakoya, the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund, the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development, and the Lagos State Office for Disability Affairs.

For galore persons surviving with disabilities, entree to skills and economical opportunities remains limited, often leaving imaginable untapped. The D2A Programme was designed to alteration that narrative. Through hands-on grooming successful laptop and telephone repairs, make-up and gele styling, wig and braids making, and footwear and container production, participants were equipped with applicable skills to earn, grow, and unrecorded independently.

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