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Ending the isolation that harms disabled children across Africa. Delivering life-changing services and transforming attitudes by harnessing the power of play.

Our Vision:
Disability Africa is working towards an inclusive global society in which the attitudes of the non-disabled are no longer barriers to the life-chances of those with impairments; where equity of opportunity exists for disabled people and societies recognise the benefits to all of Inclusive thinking and action.

05/08/2026

𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗵𝘂 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟭𝟰 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁. 💛

Last week, our Gambian team celebrated Anchu Jah , our incredible Head of Operations, who has now stepped down from her formal role at The Gunjur Inclusion Project.

Since joining the project in 2012, Anchu has been at the heart of everything we've built. Her expertise in inclusive education, combined with her unwavering commitment to disabled children and their families, helped turn our very first partnership into something truly special. The model she helped create has since shaped our work across Africa, inspiring change far beyond the community of Gunjur.

Over the years, Anchu has led operations and finances, represented Disability Africa at international conferences, and helped build the team around her. In recent months, she's been mentoring colleagues to ensure a smooth transition and a strong future for the project.

Anchu sees every child for who they are,knows every family, and every story in the project and has worked consistently for more than a decade to meet their needs within a challenging context, advocate for inclusion and encourage her team to do the same.

Thank you, Anchu, for 14 years of remarkable service. We're so grateful you'll continue to support the project in an advisory role as we build on the foundations you've helped create. 💛

22/07/2026

Our partners in Malanga, Kenya have recently invested in physiotherapy equipment for their classrooms, to enhance the targeted mobility and strength building exercises available.

Malanga is a very rural community, over two hours from the nearest town, where specialist physiotherapy services aren’t available locally.

That’s where our brilliant Medical Support Officer, Grace, comes in. A qualified physiotherapist, Grace visits two playschemes a day, delivering targeted therapy to children while they play. Grace also trains the play team to deliver these exercises themselves, and spends one day per week visiting families homes, so the impact continues well beyond her visits.

Combining specialist physiotherapy with play-based activities means children get regular, engaging support that builds strength, improves mobility, and increases independence — and this integrated approach is now running across all of our projects.

09/07/2026

A huge thank you to for featuring Disability Africa, and everyone in the Givto community who chose to support Disability Africa last month. 💙

Your generosity helps us continue creating inclusive play opportunities where disabled children and young people can play, learn, build friendships and thrive.

Each month, Givto introduce their members to a different charity, making it easy to discover and support organizations doing meaningful work across a wide range of causes.

Thank you for helping us create a more inclusive world through play. 💛

25/06/2026

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝘂𝗯𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘀𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶!

In partnership with the Libumba Inclusion Initiative, we have launched our first project in Eswatini.

Set within a remote, mountainous region, disabled children here can experience extreme isolation, with very few opportunities to socialise or participate in community life outside their homes.

Since 2019, the Libumba Inclusion Initiative has been perserving to start to deliver community-led rehabilitation outreach interventions . However, without a central hub or reliable transport, reaching children consistently across the mountainous terrain has been extremely challenging.

We are so excited to launch our first central "Play Station" where children can socialise, engage in stimulating activities, and receive therapies. Looking ahead, we plan to expand the hub into different mountainous communities, creating a "portable playscheme" model that can reach even more children and families.

The volunteer team is made up largely of local mothers who are enthusiastically learning how to deliver inclusive playschemes. We have already seen a wonderful range of creative and stimulating activities that support children's development and wellbeing.

We are incredibly excited about this new partnership and can't wait to see the positive impact it will have for disabled children and their families across the Lubombo region.

A huge thankyou to our supporters at for making this possible by investing in the playschemes very own vehicle!

11/06/2026

Smiling because it's time for a play day!

27/05/2026

We love to see the community coming together to support disabled children!

Students from Copperbelt University, Zambia, volunteered to donate blood to support the surgery of a child at our playscheme who lives with Cerebral Palsy and Sickle Cell Anemia. Due to ongoing low blood count, the child had been waiting more than a year for the operation.

Our incredible Medical Support Officer mobilised young students from across Ndola, raising awareness about inclusion and the importance of supporting disabled children and young people in the community.

We are so happy to share that the surgery was successfully completed, and the child is now recovering well!

16/04/2026

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺!

Ever wondered who is behind our projects? Meet the team from Malanga-Kenya, who have been running our busiest and most remote project for over 8 years. In 2025 alone this team delivered 9626 playscheme visits!

1. Parent Support Coordinator Florence delivers family outreach visits and parents meetings, supporting families to engage with the project and protecting the rights of disabled children to play and learn. In this photo, she is at the cassava plantation which the parents network have acquired together.

2. Project Coordinator John Safari leads the operations and finances of the project, whilst Community Co-ordinator Japhet represents the project in community forums and builds partnerships.

3. Medical Support Officer and trained physiotherapist Grace delivers daily physiotherapy at each playscheme and home visits to provide physiotherapy and coordinate medical support.

3. The play team are the heart of our projects and deliver daily play activities, care and support for the children. Many playworkers are young adults with impairments, who used to attend the playschemes themselves!

4. Tuktuk driver Carlson Safari works extremely hard ferrying children across the community to their PlayStation.

09/04/2026

A massive congratulations to Ameya, Isabelle, Gunnion, Rohan and Gnaan — a group of Year 12 students from the Isle of Man — who won the One World Charity Competition, a programme that encourages young people to raise awareness of global issues and support organizations making real impact.

Facing tough competition, their campaign for Disability Africa came out on top, raising an incredible £1,500 for our projects.

A huge thank you to the team for joining our Movement for Inclusion, and choosing to represent Disability Africa.

Interested in fundraising for Disability Africa? Head to our website to find out more.

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Sweeps Ditch , 44a Gresham Road, Staines
Guildford
TW182AN,UK

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+447902923192

Website

https://www.disability-africa.org/

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