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South Asia Access

Abundant Life for All Peoples

06/30/2025

We celebrated the impact being made in South Asia by hosting our first Curry Cook-Off! We're so thankful for our community of supporters who made this such an incredible evening!

04/14/2025

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02/03/2025

Students with disabilities often face social and institutional discrimination. 95% of students with additional support needs in South Asia have no access to disability services in the classroom. We are able to give scholarships, school supplies, and free accommodation to students with disabilities. We also provide tutoring services, computer and English language training, and career counseling, so that each student can find success in the classroom and beyond.

01/16/2025

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Equip Asia is an international Christian organization working in South Asia since 1997 to equip and empower people with disabilities, their families and communities through holistic, disability-inclusive development. Those served include people with physical and developmental disabilities, HIV/AIDS affected and the leprosy affected.

Mission: Our mission is to bring Christ’s hope and healing to children, families and communities struggling with disabilities in South Asia.

Strategy: We carry out our mission through a community-based capacity building strategy known as Inclusive Community Transformation (ICT). This strategy focuses on five key areas of holistic emphasis summed up in the acronym H.E.A.L.S. Each area of focus helps build the capacity of individuals with disabilities, their caregivers and their community.

Health: Equip Asia’s health initiatives are focused on ensuring preventable disabilities are reduced and people with existing disabilities are rehabilitated and included in the community. Health initiatives include surgical & therapeutic intervention; provision of wheelchairs, canes, braces; community-based rehabilitative services, workshops in nutrition and hygiene; disability awareness and polio prevention initiatives help prevent disabilities at the community level.

Environment: Equip Asia’s environmental initiatives work with communities towards safeguarding their natural environment while also making the physical and social environment more disability friendly. Environmental initiatives include disability-access demonstrations projects (construction of wheelchair ramps, hand rails, accessible toilets, etc.), tree planting initiatives and community clean-up projects.

Academics: Equip Asia’s academic initiatives builds the academic capacity of students with disabilities through the provision of services that support their academic pursuits. Students are provided academic scholarships, school supplies, tutoring and computer/English literacy training.

Livelihoods: Equip Asia’s livelihood initiatives builds the income generating capacity of adults with disabilities and caregivers to ensure they are able to rise out of the clutches of poverty. Livelihoods initiatives include training in income-generating trades, provision of micro-business loans, formation of Sustainable Livelihood Groups, sale of handicrafts through Jeeva Handicrafts and advocacy in obtaining governments income-generating grants and loans.

Spirituality: Equip Asia’s spiritual initiatives partner with local churches where they exist or, if no church exists, we disciple individuals and families towards the goal of planting a community-led, multiplicative, disability-inclusive faith community. Churches and faith groups are are equipped and empowered to continue God’s transformative work within the community. Spiritual initiatives include disability-inclusive discipleship training schools, leadership training, family camps and church awareness programs.

Organization info: Equip Asia is a registered 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization in the United States and work with partners in South Asia and donor-countries around the world to implement our mission.