Inclusive education
Supporting schools, teachers and families so children and young people with disabilities learn and thrive.
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Ethiopia · Somali Region
Every person belongs in the future.
We work alongside persons with disabilities, families and communities to turn rights into everyday access, opportunity and participation.
Working together
Partners helping make inclusion practical across the Somali Region.
Our partners
Who we are
Inclusion is not a special service. It is how every service should work.
Holistic Disability Development Organization is an Ethiopian local non-governmental and non-profit organization. We exist to promote rights, dignity and full inclusion for persons with disabilities.
Starting in the Somali Region and working across Ethiopia, HDDO brings disability inclusion into education, health and livelihoods, humanitarian action and community development.
Rights firstEqual dignity, participation and opportunity.
Led locallySolutions shaped with communities and OPDs.
Built to lastPractical systems, skills and partnerships.
Accountable learningEvidence that improves our work.
Vision
An inclusive Ethiopia where all persons with disabilities enjoy equal rights, equal opportunities, dignity, accessibility, and full participation in society.
Mission: To empower persons with disabilities by promoting inclusive education, accessible health services, sustainable livelihoods, humanitarian assistance, disability rights, and community-based inclusive development through partnerships, innovation, and evidence-based interventions.
How we create change
Programs designed around real life.
Each program is connected to the wider conditions that enable people to learn, earn, access services and lead in their communities.
Health and rehabilitation
Advancing accessible healthcare, rehabilitation and disability-inclusive health systems.
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Livelihoods and economic empowerment
Creating pathways to skills, employment, entrepreneurship and financial resilience.
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Rights, advocacy and accessibility
Removing barriers through policy change, universal design and meaningful participation.
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Protection and humanitarian inclusion
Ensuring emergency response, social protection and child protection are accessible to all.
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Resilient communities
Integrating WASH, nutrition, mental health and community-based inclusive development.
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Youth Skills Development and Employment
Expanding practical skills, employment pathways and economic opportunities for young people with disabilities.
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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
Promoting accessible, community-based mental health and psychosocial support for persons with disabilities, families and communities.
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Inclusive education
Learning spaces where every child is expected to succeed.
We support inclusive child development, youth skills and education systems that recognise every learner's strengths and remove the barriers that hold them back.
Discuss a partnershipCommunity Action
Capacity building and grassroots inclusion.
Empowering persons with disabilities, families and community facilitators through practical learning and dialogue.
Community Training
Knowledge that strengthens disability inclusion.
Practical learning spaces that strengthen the knowledge, confidence and collaboration needed to make local services inclusive.
Capacity Building
Learning led close to the community.
Equipping facilitators and local advocates with the skills and methodologies to champion rights and accessibility.
Community Dialogue
Voices of persons with disabilities at the center.
Direct community forums where persons with disabilities and families meet to shape decisions and identify barriers.
Leadership
Local leadership, accountable action.
HDDO is led by people committed to the rights, dignity and participation of persons with disabilities. Our leadership works with communities, institutions and partners to turn inclusion into practical action.
Why inclusion matters
When barriers fall, communities become stronger.
Disability inclusion is not separate from development. It improves the systems that all people rely on, from a clinic and classroom to a market, water point or emergency response.
01Better access to quality education and healthcare
02More independent livelihoods and economic opportunity
03Communities that are safer, more resilient and equitable
Partnership
Lasting inclusion is shared work.
HDDO welcomes partners who want to make disability inclusion practical, visible and sustainable.
Build with HDDO
Bring your partnership to the work that matters.
Whether you are a community organisation, public institution, donor or private-sector partner, we want to hear from you.
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Jigjiga, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia
info@holisticdisability.org