The Bank and Light for the World have decided to contribute towards mitigating the heightened risks the COVID-19 pandemic poses on vulnerable people notably community and health Workers, teachers, girls, boys, women and men with disabilities and their families in Burkina Faso. This project is implemented in 11 (out of Burkina Faso’s 13 administrative regions).

This project seeks to reduce and mitigate the heightened risks the COVID-19 pandemic poses on vulnerable people notably community and health workers, teachers, girls, boys, women and men with disabilities and their families in Burkina Faso. To reach this objective, this project combines direct support targeted at ensuring persons with disabilities’ resilience and access to essential services and goods – whilst at the same time tackling the multiple barriers that will otherwise exclude them from the mainstream COVID-19 response. The specific objectives are: 

1. Emergency medical response: To strengthen the health system to protect vulnerable people who are not able to access current COVID-19 response initiatives. 
2. Education in emergency : To provide education in emergency to children with disabilities who have been disproportionately affected because education and home-based health assistance services stopped or severely decreased. 
3. Build household community resilience: To build household and community resilience by giving vulnerable families targeted livelihood support services. 
4. Contribute Learnings to the Tadamon platform: To foster learning and exchange with other CSOs on disability inclusion in humanitarian action.

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