Landmine Survivor’s Network identifies personal reliance, work
opportunity, coordinated care, and public awareness as major factors
affecting recovery (Landmine Survivor’s Network, Annual report
2001). Rehabilitation requires a holistic approach which engages disability
on all these levels. AABRAR provides each of these components of rehabilitation
in its programs
AABRAR’s programs aim to:
- Improve the mobility of disabled people through physiotherapy,
bicycle training, and sporting activities.
- Empower marginalised people economically by providing vocational
training, business skills and job-search training to assist people
to secure long term employment.
- Create employment opportunities for beneficiaries when they
have completed the training programs.
- Increase socio-economic integration and improve quality of life
and general well being through literacy and numeracy training,
health education, first aid mine awareness training.
- Increase the social participation of disabled people and negate
the negative stigma attached to disability through awareness raising.
- Generate recreation through sporting activities
AABRAR has a participatory approach to development and designs
its projects in relation to the expressed needs of beneficiaries.
AABRAR’s core strategy is based on empowering vulnerable
people to build sustainable livelihoods.
AABRAR designs its programs to ensure they are suited to the local
geographic, socio-economic, cultural contexts of the target groups
to maximise their effectiveness and sustainability.
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