01Multidisciplinary Clinical Screenings
Mobile medical assessment camps identifying visual, auditory, and motor impairments early across rural primary schools.
Identifying children with disabilities, meeting their rehabilitation and assistive-device needs, and making classrooms places where they can learn.
Learn how LIFT combines clinical assessment camps with assistive technology and teacher coaching to ensure no learner with a disability is left behind.
Partner with usUniversal design: Classrooms where every child belongs and learns with dignity.
Children with disabilities in rural Rwanda face severe physical, pedagogical, and social barriers to educational access. Many are kept at home due to pervasive stigma or schools lacking accessible infrastructure.
The Disability and Inclusion Programme integrates mobile clinical screening camps, assistive device provision, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) training for classroom teachers across 640 partner schools.
Delivered with clinical and specialized disability organizations, this initiative proves that with the right assistive aids, modified physical classroom environments, and differentiated pedagogical routines, learners with severe disabilities can excel alongside their peers.
Explore Our Focus AreasBy modifying classroom physical environments, distributing eyeglasses, hearing aids, and tactile learning aids, and educating communities, we prove that inclusive education is both achievable and sustainable.
Children screened for visual, auditory, and mobility impairments
Assistive devices and mobility aids prescribed and fitted
Schools retrofitted with accessible ramps and gender-safe latrines
Teachers certified in Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Term-over-term classroom retention rate among enrolled pupils
District referral networks established with district hospitals
A teacher at a disability-inclusive school in Ruhango speaks to parents and caregivers about access to quality education.
Follow classroom teachers and school mentors as they implement structured daily routines and observe how targeted interventions drive tangible learner confidence.
Read the stories“Receiving prescription glasses and large-print textbooks changed everything for me. I can now read the chalkboard clearly from anywhere in the classroom and follow along with my friends.”
“Receiving prescription glasses and large-print textbooks changed everything for me. I can now read the chalkboard clearly from anywhere in the classroom and follow along with my friends.” — Patrick Mugabo
01Mobile medical assessment camps identifying visual, auditory, and motor impairments early across rural primary schools.
02Supplying wheelchairs, hearing aids, optical magnifiers, and braille slates with ongoing post-fitting technical maintenance.
03Training educators in multi-sensory instruction so lessons are accessible to learners with neurodiverse learning profiles.
04Sensitizing parents and village leadership to break negative cultural taboos and welcome children with disabilities into schools.
Active
Timeline
2024–2030
2,455
Children with disabilities assessed
348
Assistive devices fitted
29%
Identified as needing a device
HandbookPlaceholder abstract. Universal Design for Learning — starter handbook. This document sets out findings, methods and recommendations from LIFT's work in Rwanda....
Annual reportPlaceholder abstract. LIFT Rwanda Annual Learning Report 2025. This document sets out findings, methods and recommendations from LIFT's work in Rwanda. Final te...
Research StudyPlaceholder abstract. Partnerships for inclusive education — learning paper. This document sets out findings, methods and recommendations from LIFT's work in Rw...
We provide corrective eyeglasses, hearing aids, wheelchairs, crutches, white canes, braille slates and styluses, and large-print instructional readers.
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