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In developing countries, 80% to 90% of persons with disabilities of working age are unemployed, whereas in industrialised countries the figure is between 50% and 70% - UN Enable Fact Sheet on Disability and Employment, 2011
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Proyecto RBC Mushuk Kawsay

A school for visually impaired children
A CBR programme for persons with visual impairment

The NGO 'Fundación Indígena para el Desarrollo' (FUIDE) is located in Riobamba, in the province of Chimborazo, one of the poorest provinces in the country.

The foundation started a blind school in 1990 and later on started a community based E&R programme for the visually impaired, supported by CBM, in collaboration with a CBM Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) adviser.

This NGO is now focussing on indigenous community development programmes and will implement a CBR project for all disabilities in two parishes of the province.

Riobamba, Ecuador