JUMAWAM Housing Project

Project Summary
This 24-month project seeks to provide dissent shelters (Low cost modern houses) for 238 People
with disability with about 1,520 dependents in total.
We plan to build three bed room houses which will be with special room for person with disability
and other two rooms will be for family members. Also at the back of the house there will be
building for income generating project for person with disability.
The estimated cost of 238 (three bead room houses) is 6,000,000 USD.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an elaboration of existing
international human rights law as it applies to people with disability. Article 19 recognizes the
human right of people with disability “to live in the community, with choices equal to others’.
This means that people with disability must be able to choose their place of residence, where
and with whom they live as others in the community. In order for this to be achieved people with
disability must have access to a range of in-home, residential and other community support
services.
However, many people with disability are not provided with adequate support and as such are
compelled to live in institutions in order to receive the supports and disability services that they
need. PWDA defines an institution is anywhere that a ‘person with disability is forced to live in
order to access the support they need.’1 The term institution does not refer solely to large
residential social care homes or psychiatric units; rather, PWDA uses the term to refer to any
place where people with disability ‘are isolated, segregated and/or congregated in which people
do not have, or are not allowed to exercise control over their lives and day to day decisions.

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