To access more State supported social opportunities like education and economic empowerment, Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria are often encouraged to register with the State disability Commission in person or by utilising an online form. Women with Disabilities in armed conflict affected communities are in danger of being further disenfranchised from this social protection as most are not physically capable to make the trip to the Commission which is located at the Nation’s capital nor afford the cost for the travel as they’ve been made poor by loss of business from the conflicts their communities is recovering from; others have never had access to nor used the internet and are uneducated. Our project takes the registration to these communities in Southern Kaduna, a region in Northern Nigeria with over a decade of armed conflict from which most women were raped and maimed, further increasing women’s disability in this region. The Guardian Sisters Initiative (TGSI) goes to these hard to reach communities to document these rural women and girls with disabilities and register them with the State disability Commission for social opportunities like economic empowerment to support their socio-economic recovery.

We are planning to expand the reach of the Document Us! Project by training selected rural women with disabilities in conflict affected communities on how to register for the disability social opportunities with the State disability Commission so they can teach and support other women with disabilities in their villages with the registration.

What our grantee is saying: "The Awesome Disability grant is helping us bring socio-economic inclusion to the door step of conflict affected women and girls with disabilities, one village at a time."