ORGANISATIONS BY SERVICES

The Ministry of Social Development and Family Services, supports initiatives to assist in promoting the principles and tenets of both the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the National Policy on Persons with Disabilities. Consequently, the Ministry agreed to collaborate with the Digicel Foundation accepting their proposal and research on organizations that provide services to persons with disabilities to establish an online directory for persons with disabilities. This directory will serve as an online resource available to all citizens, particularly persons with disabilities and their caregivers seeking information on organisations that assist or provide services to persons with disabilities. Also included in the directory are emergency contact information for local law enforcement, fire services and district health facilities. The online directory will have enhanced features to allow persons to search organisations by disability, organisational type and location. All entities that appear in the directory would have been created by an Act of Parliament or registered with a relevant State body. This directory is accessible to persons with disabilities using screen readers.