About Us

Onyenuwe Sunday

The visionary Leader of HAEI

Handicapped Ability Empowerment initiative (HAEI) was officially inaugurated in the year 2011 by Onyenuwe Sunday with cooperate affairs commission recognition. Before then, the NGO was existing with the name handicapped ability link foundation (HALF).

The organization was established to professionally address the issues of persons with disability in Nigeria starting from cross river state. Such issues include;

  1. To promote their welfare and initiating in them the spirit of good leadership.
  2. Establishment of special education Centers in all the states.
  3. To ensure proper recognition of people living with disability during elections.
  4. To ensure persons with disability have access to good health information and services.
  5. To address issues of HIV/AIDS among persons living with disability.
  6. To ensure that qualified persons living with disability are employed in government and non-governmental agencies.

HAEI Narrative

Handicapped ability empowerment initiative (HAEI) is a non-governmental, non-profit oriented organization registered for person’s living with disabilities (PLWDs) in 2011 with cooperate affairs Commission (CAC) Abuja.

HAEI was initiated by a physiotherapist, Oyenuwe Sunday, to ball PWLDs from the prison of disabilities. Since its inception, the organization has been providing disability services to PLWDs and their families using different models of disabilities ranging from provision of walking aids, establishing organizations of persons living with disabilities across the LGAs of Cross River State, celebration of the annual international day of the persons living with disability, organization of health promotion and education for PLWDs etc.

What is more, at the 2020 Annual General Meeting, HAEI management and the technical team decided to broaden its mandate to include people with special needs, especially the left-handed children in schools and communities in Nigeria. Having seen the rate and procedures of conversion of the lefthanded children to righthanded after much torture, while those children who insist on using their left hand always use the phrase ‘pardon my left’ before it could be accepted in the public event at family level.

HAEI is a platform where the Challenges of people living with disabilities are identified, assessed, analyzed planned, executed, monitored and evaluated.

Our Formidable Team

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HAEI Belief

  1. The same God created both the temporary able and the persons living with disability.
  2. Not all disability are acquired, some are from birth.
  3. Not all persons with disability are the cause of their disability.
  4. No handicapped is 100% disabled.
  5. Persons with disability can still acquire political positions.
  6. Disabilities are not obstacles to marriage; hence they could be responsible parents of non-disable children.
  7. Disable persons in families shouldn’t be seen as a cause, stigma disgrace, liability, rather as a blessing from God.
  8. Disable persons well taken care of might live longer than temporal able persons.

HAEI Services

  1. Provision of Mobility Aids.
  2. Community base Rehabilitation.
  3. Provision of funds for persons with disability.
  4. Medical rehabilitation.
  5. Socio-Economic Rehabilitation like provision of accommodation, clothing, tuition fee and other social services.

Our Mission

our mission is to empower persons with disability within and outside cross river state without discrimination by standard service delivery ton humanity.

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Our Vision

Haei is committed to excellence, honesty, dignity, compassion, integrity, innovation, teamwork, for the world recognition of persons with disability.

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Our Core Values

Teamwork, Accountability, Integrity, Professionalism, Service orientation.

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