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Profiles
Dria Dawa
Regional Profiles:
Oromia
Southern Ethiopia
United Polio Survivors Foundation, Ltd
An Ethiopian female polio survivor, Etsegenet Legess Lakew, a
founder of the organization initiated the program and has succeeded
to shape the organization vision, mission and strategic objectives.
She came to realize very soon the multifaceted discrimination of people with polio in Ethiopia both by positive and negative ways of discriminations. In all terms, the culture by itself is a taboo for persons with disability that they by no means can enjoy the flavor of life in any social system. Therefore, as they are totally segregated from all development program and social participation in all activities most of them have become the most marginalized poor people in the country.
The founder of UPSF, knowing the deep rooted discriminating traditional practices in Ethiopia, has come to decide to open up country office for UPSF in Ethiopia making Addis Ababa its Head Office.
The founder of UPSF is dedicated to helping polio survivors in Ethiopia.
She came to realize very soon the multifaceted discrimination of people with polio in Ethiopia both by positive and negative ways of discriminations. In all terms, the culture by itself is a taboo for persons with disability that they by no means can enjoy the flavor of life in any social system. Therefore, as they are totally segregated from all development program and social participation in all activities most of them have become the most marginalized poor people in the country.
The founder of UPSF, knowing the deep rooted discriminating traditional practices in Ethiopia, has come to decide to open up country office for UPSF in Ethiopia making Addis Ababa its Head Office.
The founder of UPSF is dedicated to helping polio survivors in Ethiopia.
United Polio Survivors Foundation, Ltd.