Goals: It gives able-bodied trainees the skills, knowledge and awareness to enable them to get jobs as personal assistants to disabled people.
It also gives disabled trainees the skills to secure funding and to manage and employ assistants. Other goals include breaking down barriers between disabled and non-disabled young people.
Funding: Funders include North London Connexions, Bridge House Estates Trust Fund, European Year of Disabled People and Haringey London Borough Council.
Encompass Travel helps with transport costs and Chingford Sixth Form College is even organising a sponsored leg wax.
Independence is the one thing lacking from the lives of many young disabled people, and it's something that most crave. Personal assistants can help them lead independent lives by performing the tasks that their impairment prevents them from undertaking. It also increases greater interaction with non-disabled people - another of Empower 2001's aims.
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