Abstract:
Disabled person is someone who has a physical or mental
impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her
ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. There are six hundred
million of disabled people estimated to live in worldwide. The needs of
disabled people could become a more important component in operations
when they are included in the initial analysis for country programming. For
that, the needs of people with disabilities have to be identified earlier in the
operational cycle, project activities with a disability dimension. So,
identifying the factors for the effectiveness of disabled persons was the main
objective of this study. In order to achieve this objective the data were
collected through both methods; primary and secondary. Primary data is
collected by the interview method through questionnaire using the multi
stage cluster sampling method and 150 samples were selected from the 22
G.N. divisions of the certain D.S. division in Alaiyadivembu Divisional
Secretariat and secondary data were collected from the related documents of
the Alaiyadivembu Divisional Secretariat. Disabled persons whose age above
14 are only selected for this study as that is the minimum age of a person who
is able to attain a job. Data is analyzed through the Chi-square method while
employment status of the person taken as the dependent variable. The study
found that 46% of the disabled persons are employed while 54% of them are
unemployed according to the sample. Also, almost all the disabled persons
(approximately 91%) are living at home except 9% of them who lives in the
orphanages. One of the major finding is that the effectiveness of the disabled
person is depends upon their gender, age, educational level, residential
sectors, vocational trainings that they have and various aids provided to
them except the living place, race and religion.
