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Mapping Report: Specialized Services Available For Persons With Disabilities in Somalia
24/10/2023
BACKGROUND Persons with disabilities are one of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in Somalia. Due to limited legislation and policy addressing disability rights and inclusion, persons with disabilities face numerous forms of discrimination, such as physical barriers, negative attitudes from their community, and a lack of access to existing social services. In the context
SOMALI DISABILITY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK (SODEN) EXPRESSES ITS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES FOR AHMED WARSAME’S TRAGIC DEATH.
23/01/2023
Mogadishu, 23 January 2023— The Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) offers condolences on the tragic death of the Director of the Department of Disability in the Benaadir regional administration. Ahmed Hassan Warsame was a visually impaired man who dedicated his life to serving the disabled people living in the Benaadir region. Ahmed Hassan was among
Somali Disability Empowerment Network SODEN has had a fruitful meeting with the Newly Established National Disability Agency.
06/01/2022
Today, on 5th January 2022, the Somali Disability Empowerment Network SODEN has had a fruitful meeting with the National Disability Agency NDA in Mogadishu on Somali disability rights. The purpose of today’s meeting was to build a collaborative mechanism and commitment among Organizations for Persons with Disability OPDs and the National Disability agency NDA through
Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) are Very Much Saddened About the Exclusion of PWDs from the Current Ongoing Political Process in Somalia
31/01/2021
MOGADISHU: Historically, persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Somalia have rarely participated in elections either as candidates or voters due to prevailing cultural stigmatization against PWDs, the absence of political will to recognize PWDs’ participation to the political process and a lack of awareness on their rights to participate in the electoral process. Somali Provisional Constitution
IN THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD DISABILITY DAY 2020, SODEN HAS DISTRIBUTED VISUALLY IMPAIRED AID EQUIPMENTS TO THE WEYDOOW CAMP DISABLED RESIDENTS..
07/12/2020
Somalia Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) is one of the most activist local organization that advocates the Rights for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Somalia. SODEN provides services to PWDs on behalf of advocacy. One of the major activities SODEN provides to PWDs includes raising awareness on discrimination against PWDs, empowering them through capacity building, and
SODEN Statement on World Sight Day Thursday 8 October 2020
08/10/2020
On Thursday 8 October 2020, Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) joins the rest of the world in celebration of World Sight Day. World Sight Day is the main advocacy event for raising awareness about blindness and vision impairment – The Right to Sight – and is observed annually on the second Thursday of October. This
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF SOMALIA DISREGARDS THE FORMATION OF THE SOMALI NATIONAL DISABILITY AGENCY
07/09/2020
Following the parliamentarian approvals of the National Disability Agency bill in November and December 2018, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo signed into the bill on the establishment of Somalia’s National Disability Agency at the presidential signing ceremony on 31st December 2018. These serve as key milestones for persons
SODEN Strongly Condemns the Brutal Killing of the Chairperson of Disabled Groups of Southwest State of Somalia
02/07/2020
PRESS RELEASE: MOGADISHU: Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) is deeply saddened about the brutal killing of the Chairperson of the disability groups in Baidoa, Mr. Sharif Mukhtar who was a wheelchair user. Mr. Mukhtar has been a very key prominent human rights activist who actively advocated for the rights of people with disabilities in the
SODEN’s Interventions Towards COVID-19 Pandemic Prevention and Containment Measures.
28/05/2020
As a response to COVID-19 pandemic prevention and containment, SODEN in partnership with ABILIS Foundation – Finland, implemented a two month period Emergency Food Distribution Project to People With Disabilities’ (PWDs) Households in IDP camps of Mogadishu, Somalia who are mostly at risk due to ongoing lockdown. The intervention was undertaken between April – May
