National Association for Blind Bowlers (NABB)
The National Association for Blind Bowlers is an association for blind bowlers in South Africa
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United Cerebral Palsy Association of South Africa (UCPA)
Our primary goals include providing our clients with quality nursing care and stimulation in the form of creative occupational therapy. Aqua Hydro Therapy, Speech therapy, Physiotherapy and Stimulating visits and outings to events and places of interest. We have a year round programmed of planned activities for each day based on various ‘Themes’ with active exploration being ‘key’ to the various projects.
Continue reading →League of Friends of The Blind (LOFOB)
The League of Friends of the Blind (LOFOB) is a Non-Governmental Organisation which caters to the needs of blind and visually impaired individuals. We work to further the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for Education and Decent Work.
Based in Grassy Park, Western Cape, we have been in operation since 1933 and have assisted in providing independence development services to thousands of individuals from all over South Africa and across the African continent.
Lusito Association (LPAC)
The Lusito Association was established in 1979 by a group of Portuguese parents who found a need for a school for the differently abled within the Portuguese community. The Lusito Association started the first Lusito School under the auspices of the Mental Health Society of the Witwatersrand and has subsequently grown with the school. The Lusito Association is a non-profit organisation whose function is to manage and fundraise, to build and maintain, the Lusito School. The best known fundraising event is the Lusito Land Festival, winning Leisure Options Reader’s Choice Award for Johannesburg’s best festival. 100% of all funds raised from these fundraising events go directly to the school.
Continue reading →KwaZulu-Natal Blind & Deaf Society (BDSKZN)
The KwaZulu-Natal Blind & Deaf Society provides services mostly to African people, generally poor, unemployed and living in rural areas. The Society currently reaches the poor, unemployed African people living in rural areas who do not have the finances or ability to receive services. The greatest challenge that the Society faces, is how to improve these unfortunate individuals quality of life. The sad situation is that these almost forgotten people are not only deprived, but also disabled, which leaves them feeling very inadequate and incapable, and the sad fact is that most of them receive no external assistance
Continue reading →Innovation for The Blind (IFB)
Innovation for the Blind (previously Institute for the Blind), situated in the care capital town of South AfricWorcester, is a non-profit organisation that has been catering to the all-inclusive, specialised needs of visually impaired adults since 1881. Our mission is to empower persons who are blind, partially sighted or deafblind, including visually impaired persons with additional disabilities towards improved quality of life and reaching maximal levels of independence.
Continue reading →Goldfields Society for The Blind (GFSB)
Welfare society situated in Welkom in the Free State.
Continue reading →Quadpara Association of North West (QANW)
The QuadPara Association of KZN is a Non Profit Organisation established to cater for the needs of quadriplegics and paraplegics in the North West Province
Continue reading →Quadpara Association of South Africa (QASA)
The QuadPara Association of South Africa (QASA) is considered the leading agency representing persons with spinal cord injury and physical disability in South Africa. QASA is a NPO of Quadriplegics and Paraplegics. QASA strives to develop products, programmes and services in order to develop capacity amongst its members and to offer opportunities for societal integration.
Continue reading →Quadpara Association Western Cape (QAWC)
The QuadPara Association of the Western Cape (QAWC) is a non-profit organisation (NPO 002-942) which represents quadriplegics and paraplegics in the Western Cape. Any person may become a member of the organisation and the QAWC membership is drawn from various diverse areas across the Western Cape. The organisation is managed by a management committee.
QAWC strives to improve the lives of and fights for the rights of quadriplegics and paraplegics in the Western Cape. Through prevention and awareness campaigns, QAWC aims to prevent spinal cord injuries as well as educate the general public about the realities of living with a spinal cord injury.
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