StanChart launches Sh2.2 billion programme to skill youth with disabilities

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The project also targets 90 microbusinesses, providing expert business development advice and supporting those microbusinesses to grow and create 144 job opportunities.

“Tanzania is a home to a large generation of young people, and most are not in education, training, or employment, today we face a range of risks and shocks across the lifecycle, and person with disabilities and their families often have less ability to withstand these shocks and risks for a variety of reasons. Even further young women are more likely to be unemployed than young men according to the Global Employment Trends for youth 2022, International Labour Organization. The drivers of poverty among persons with disabilities include: lack of literacy with the current illiteracy rate for persons with disabilities in Tanzania being 47.6% compared to 25.3% of the persons without disability according to Tanzania Human rights report, limited access to economic, extra cost of living with a disability for example, additional household expenses, health, rehabilitation and medical related costs and; other indirect costs of disability such as loss of education and employment opportunities driven up mostly due to stigma and discrimination.

StanChart launches Sh2.2 billion programme to skill youth with disabilities

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