About The Engraced Ones
If we are willing to take it together, there is an opportunity to create a world of no boundaries — where children with disabilities go to school and participate in community lives, without barriers. Sponsor a childWho we are
The Engraced Ones Prayer Support and Advocacy Initiative is a Support Group for parents, caregivers and lovers of children living with special needs.
Our scope covers all areas of special needs since the emotional needs of the parents are related and the issues of discrimination are basically the same. We hinge our operations on the threefold cord of Prayer, Sensitization and Advocacy. We believe in strengthening the parents as primary caregivers through training and empowerment programs. We also solicit the help of experts, medical personnel, educators, ICT experts, etc to help us attain our goal of societal inclusion and acceptance of our children. We also solicit the support of financiers and partners. We sensitize all classes of people including those at the grassroots on the conditions of children in order to demystify the concept of special needs. We are advocating for policy change in the areas of health care, education, etc. We are also engaged in community-based health and educational interventions tailored toward the needs of children living with special needs.
OUR VISION
To pray all children living with special needs to perfection in their health through the miraculous hand of God, through an appropriate inclusive or special educational Programme, affordable and expert healthcare and through an atmosphere of love, void of discrimination.
OUR MISSION
- To hold regular prayer meetings calling on God to restore the physical, mental and academic dignity of children living with special needs
- To enlighten all stakeholders and the general public about the conditions the children are living with and mobilize them to accept and include these persons in all spheres of life.
- To advocate for their acceptance and reduce the rate in which they are stigmatized through robust collaborative and sensitization programs in the form of workshops and mass/social media campaigns.
- Promote independence in the children and equip their parents and other stakeholders to nurture the children skillfully.
- Promote a robust support system comprising of adequate parental and Medicare, early intervention and affordable Inclusive or Individualized Educational Programmes.
DOWN SYNDROME AWARENESS; DAY 16
It is possible for both conditions to co-exist in an individual. Co-mobidity means that one individual can exhibit traits of several conditions even though one is likely to be prevalent.
DOWN SYNDROME AWARENESS; DAY 15
At the moment, there are records of DS – DS marriages as well as persons with DS getting hooked to neurotypical partners.
DOWN SYNDROME AWARENESS; DAY 14
Often times, people with Down syndrome are denied opportunity to try new things because of negative perceptions and impossibility/fixed mindsets of those around them.
DOWN SYNDROME AWARENESS; DAY 13
Younger women have DS births as well as older women. Statistically, about 80% of babies with DS are born to women under age 35 years. This is because it falls within the active years for childbirths.