Purpose:
- To relieve poverty, by providing children from poor families in Ethiopia, who have a disability, with assistance devices and technologies, thereby providing these children and students with tools and support necessary to pursue their education.
- To advance education in Ethiopia by providing training programs for teachers and parents on subject of “dealing with a disabled child” thereby creating an environment conducive to learning of disabled children: and
- To undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the aforementioned charitable purposes.
Beneficiaries:
For the purpose of our organization a child is considered disabled:
- he or she has a medically determinable physical or mental impairment (or combination of impairments); and
- the impairment(s) results in marked and severe functional limitations; and
- the impairment(s) has lasted (or is expected to last) for at least one year or to result in death.
There are two sets of eligibility criteria for receiving benefit from our program
- Financial criteria based on the income and resources of the child and family; and
- Medical criteria about the child’s impairment or combination of impairments.
For the purpose of our organization, if a child is from a family, whose annual income is below, near or not less than 20 percent of the poverty line as defined by the United Nations for Ethiopia, the child will qualify for benefit.
Deliverer of service:
1.Directly to the disabled child
When a child is eligible, we propose to make the cash payments to a responsible person or organization. Typically, a parent or other relative with whom the child lives will be considered a responsible person. In some cases, though, a family member or other person cannot serve as the responsible person, and our organization can recognize a qualified organization to be a responsible person for the child. Person or an organization that receives the payment of money must use the money for the benefit of the child and ensure that his or her current needs are met. These needs include basic needs of shelter, food and educational supplements that assist the child to overcome his disability.
Another way of ensuring access to education will be providing the disabled children with special equipment’s needed for their education .For instance in case of a visually impaired child the educational supplement includes access to braille or voice recognizing computer .
2. To the community of disabled children as group
Another way of delivering services will aim at insuring access to education for disabled children at schools.
We aim to make all the schools in the district of Matu wheelchair accessible. Our organization will select schools for this purpose and will propose budget work and supervises the construction.
We also plan to organize educational programs to teachers to enhance their skills when dealing with a disabled child. Our organization plans to prepare such programs by inviting wide range of professionals that could deliverer the awareness and the skill enhancing programs.
Running of the organization:
Our organization plans to run its program by voluntaries in Ethiopia and Canada. The board in Canada will directly supervise the work done by its volunteers. It will be responsible for the budget and planning of each program. It will also approve the application of the qualifying child for a benefit.
As the organization grows, it will run an office in Ethiopia and will hire professionals to run its programs.
The running cost of the organization as whole cannot at any time be more than twenty five (25%) of its annual income. The remaining 75% of its income must be spent on the charitable purpose identified.
The cost of administration of particular charitable program cannot also exceed 25% of the budget allocated for the specific program.
Dissolution:
Upon dissolution of the corporation and after payment of all debts and liabilities, its remaining property shall be distributed or disposed of to charities registered under the Income Tax Act (Canada), in Canada