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Sierra Leonean boy adjusts his leg braces as his friends
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Implementing Partner:
PACT Inc.
Funding Period: September 2001 – September
2009
Amount: $13,351,885
Purpose:
Location: Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, South Sudan,
and
Uganda)
Objectives:
- Increased use of appropriate orthopedic and rehabilitiation services
- Improved policy environment for civilian victims of war
- Improved institutional capacity to deliver quality services
- Increased social and economic integration of civilian victims of war
The Omega Initiative is a regional
grant-making and technical assistance program that
focuses on providing assistance to people with disabilities
in sub-Saharan Africa. The initiative provides funding
and technical support for a broad range of rehabilitation
services for war disabled civilians in sub-Saharan
Africa through large and small subgrants.
Since
its inception in 2001, The OMEGA program has made
eighty-seven awards to seventy-three organizations in eight countries.
The program has served more than 10,000 people, it
has trained 5,000 people, and has strengthened 200
organization
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