Ability in Disability
Ability in Disability
Authors : Meera Shenoy & Gopal Garg
Youth with disability, especially in the villages, are an underserved population. Youth4Jobs has created a template for skilling youth with disability and linking them to organised sector jobs. The initiative mainstreams recruiting disabled youth by highlighting the business case of hiring these youth with special abilities. In the process, the organisation has demonstrated a scalable and replicable model for the policy makers. The work is important as the “Skill for India” mission cannot be achieved unless the unreached are made employable.
1 out of every 7 persons in the world are disabled. 80% or about 550 million of the world’s disabled are concentrated in the developing countries making the correlation between poverty and disability very direct. As a result, Poor people are disproportionately disabled…and people with disabilities are disproportionately poor. The disabilities of disabled people are accentuated by lack of social support and amenities and makes them highly vulnerable pushing them into marginalization. The disabled, especially children are deprived of basic health and educational facilities and as a consequence are not adequately prepared for employment opportunities in their adulthood. The disabled people’s limited access to basic services pushes them further into the spiral poverty. It’s a double bind as disabilities increase poverty and poverty accentuates disabilities, as it hampers access to services.
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