Action for Integrated Community Development (AICOD)

To contribute to the fundamental basic needs of children living under difficult circumstances to minimum standards for a life of dignity through Skills training, advocacy, capacity building of the house holds, and creation of institutional and physical structures that improve on their living conditions.

AICOD is a disability and other vulnerable young peoples focused organisation. we are involved in home based rehabilitation services for children with disabilities, Vocational skills training for Youth with disabilities and other vulnerable young people, HIV/AIDS prevention,Care and support, Economic empowerment for vulnerable youths both with/out disabilities. Action for Integrated Community Development is based in Lyantonde district in the Republic of Uganda.

Disability limits access to education and employment, and leads to economic and social exclusion. Poor people with disabilities are caught in a vicious cycle of poverty and disability, each being a cause and a consequence of the other.

Children and youths with disabilities and their families constantly experience barriers to the enjoyment of their basic human rights and to their inclusion in society. Their abilities are overlooked, their capacities are underestimated and their needs are given low priority. Yet, the barriers they face are more frequently as a result of the environment in which they live than as a result of their impairment. Thus the need to provide these people with alternative source of livelihoods.