Who We Are
EmbraceAbility is a disability-led, community-rooted organisation working in Cambodia and Malawi. Founded to challenge exclusion and transform disability responses from charity to justice, our mission is to empower people with disabilities to build a world where they are included, resourced, and recognised with dignity, agency, and justice.
We believe inclusion accelerates economies, strengthens societies, and enriches communities. Our approach is simple but powerful: by listening, caring, and working alongside people with disabilities, we are transforming communities into inclusive ones.
Disability programmes must be holistic to break the vicious cycle of disability and poverty. Disabled households are statistically twice as poor as their non-disabled peers. At EmbraceAbility, we recognise that people with disabilities need access to healthcare, economic justice, and communities that value their knowledge and leadership.
We are taking bold steps: not recycling traditional charity programmes, but designing data-informed, co-produced models that build inclusive and sustainable communities.
We’re entering a new chapter, a three-year strategy designed to scale our impact, invest in our people, and reimagine what inclusion looks like in practice. Guided by our pillars of Rights, Health & Protection, Economic Justice, Community Power & Inclusive Futures - driven by the Community Futures Fund, we’re turning ideas into action and co-creating change that lasts.
At every step, we’re committed to shared leadership, disability inclusion, and amplifying community voices.
Our Impact
Across our programmes, we are creating meaningful change for people with disabilities worldwide.
Together, these numbers represent lives strengthened, voices amplified, and communities made more inclusive.
Our Work
Our programmes are evolving, rooted in the real needs of disabled people, co-produced, and built for long-term impact. Each new initiative is a step toward a future where communities are inclusive, equitable, and led by lived experience.
1. Rights, Health & Protection
We work to ensure that people with disabilities can exercise their fundamental rights — including access to healthcare, protection, and participation.
In Malawi, we’re developing our Mobile Healthcare Outreach Programme, which will bring essential healthcare, physiotherapy, and health education directly to remote villages where the nearest hospital is an 11-hour walk away.
In Cambodia, we’ve launched Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities, a programme empowering girls, women, and communities to understand disability rights and safeguarding, turning awareness into action. Read more about it here.
Together, these initiatives aim to close the gap between rights on paper and rights in practice.
2. Economic Justice
We’re tackling the economic drivers of inequality by redistributing resources and challenging systems that keep disabled people in poverty.
Through our disability living allowance–style cash transfers, families receive direct financial support to reduce hardship. Alongside this, we’re building community-led economic models that move beyond micro-finance, strengthening local economies through inclusion and shared ownership.
3. Community Power & Inclusive Futures
We believe communities hold the knowledge and creativity to lead change. The Community Futures Fund invests in projects designed and led by people with disabilities, from new livelihood initiatives to accessible infrastructure, building inclusive futures from the ground up.