Disability inclusion

People with disabilities are more likely to experience adverse socioeconomic outcomes such as less education, poorer health outcomes, lower levels of employment, and higher poverty rates. Poverty increases the risk of disability through malnutrition, insufficient access to education and health care, unsafe working conditions, a polluted environment, and lack of access to clean water and sanitation.

Disability also increases the risk of poverty, due to lack of employment and education opportunities, lower wages and an increased cost of living with a disability. Barriers to the full social and economic inclusion of persons with disabilities include inaccessible physical environments and transportation, unavailability of assistive devices and technologies, unsuitable means of communication, gaps in service provision and discriminatory prejudice and stigma in society.

As a response, APESEK helps people with disabilities in the above-mentioned needs based on the specificity of each person.