Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD)

Redeeming Hope For The Disabled is a registered NPO based in Johannesburg, led by disabled people aiming to Protect, Empower and Integrate fellow disabled.

[AronT @Aribanob]

Since the #GNU (Government of National Unity) South Africa law enforcement with the Department of home Affairs (@HomeAffairsSA) are engaging in massive cleanups and they are rounding up non-nationals without legal documents to deport them to their origin of their countries.
The 2024 DHA White paper on Citizens, Immigration and Refugee Protection, states that there an estimated 828,404 inactive asylum-seekers. The inactive asylum applicants refer to individuals who were granted asylum visas but subsequently vanished without a trace from the @HomeAffairsSA system. How can such a large number of asylees disappear from the system?

A large number of this group are now called undocumented (or labelled as illegal) which makes it easier to deport them.

The DHF has not provided a reason why such big number of asylees (90% of all asylees) are inactive. Reliable research studies and civil societies attribute the disappearance of larger number of asylum-seekers from the system of the DHA to the deliberate actions of the government working to make the asylum services inaccessible for refugees and asylum-seekers. closure of refugee reception centres, long processing times for asylum applications, institutional xenophobia and corruption led to this.

We cannot claim that they are inactive because they fail to renew their documents or fail to document themselves. We know that asylum-seekers or new arrivals have been suffering physical abuse and losing their lives in long queues in Refugee Reception Centres. They queue for days and weeks unit their papers long expired and dates of renewal passes or denied access at all, then after a while they are erased from the system.

Amnesty internation and other humanitarian organisation have also been reporting that a 96 % rejection of asylum application in South Africa.

How many of these inactive asylees are now labelled as undocumented/ illegal and is it fair deport them when it was @DHA failed to document them?

@Leon_Schreib , @CyrilRamaphosa
@ThamiNtuliy , @antonioguterres, @FilippoGrandi,
@unhcrsafrica, @UNHCRSouthernAF
@ScalabriniCT, @SARefugee_Led, @ARN_africa
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[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

@inABLEorg Great stuff

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

This Refugee child has struggled to secure a moving chair. We are happy to have organised one for her. Hope we can be able to assist many more children in the same situation around Joburg. @WeAreCohere_Org @SARefugee_Led @unhcrsafrica @Savethechildsa

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

"We are the best advocates for our own human rights" dixit @godelsefu1

In fact #refugees with disabilities must be empowered to pursue protection, empowerment & integration on their own terms, in the spirit of UNCRPD. Thanks for @UNHCRInnovation support this far 🙏🏾🌹

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

The woman from Limpopo can’t believe she finally got a wheelchair coming all the way from our project in Johannesburg. We heard her voice; we felt the pain…
We fix wheelchairs to help fellow disabled gaining freedom of movement and access to services available for them.

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

The last group of fellow PWD just completed their electronic devices repair training. 30 refugees with disabilities from our different communities have now gone through the training as planned. Thanks to @UNHCRInnovation and the well wishers in supporting the project further.

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

Completion of the Cellphone and Computer Repair Training with the 2nd group of fellow refugees with disabilities in Joburg. Our gratitude to the @UNHCRInnovation and the well-wishers to support the project further.

[UNHCR Innovation @UNHCRInnovation]

“We are clearing misconceptions, we are challenging those views that see us as un-able.”

Godel + @RDisabled are ensuring #refugees with disabilities can pursue protection, empowerment + integration on their own terms.

#DisabilityPrideMonth

Read more: https://t.co/9kTjsi6CEb

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

Testimonials of change are pouring in. Let's share one here...What a difference we will make in these lives if we can get them tools to start their own businesses! Please connect with us if you can help. Thank you @UNHCRInnovation for supporting the initiative this far.

[Cohere @WeAreCohere_Org]

If we listened to what refugees want rather than telling them what they need then change would be possible. We want to see a world in which everyone has control over their own futures.
#HopeAwayFromHome #WorldRefugeeDay #BetterFutures

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

2nd group of fellow refugees with disabilities doing their electronic repair devices training with enthusiasm and gratitude. Forever grateful to @UNHCRInnovation

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

Thanking our anonymous donors for 30 blankets now distributed to fellow refugees with disabilities in Joburg. Yes, winter is upon us and demands are getting higher... "Let your compassion come to me so that I may live,..." Ps119:77

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

1st group of refugees with disabilities completing their Electronic Repair Training... Yes, they now need their own tools to start working and training fellow disabled from their communities... We really can’t thank @UNHCRInnovation enough for supporting changing lives.

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

1st group training... Hoping to see the UNCRPD meeting us there... where refugees with disabilities feel counted as an existing human group too. Where we can be empowered to value ourselves and get valued by the services we offer to our communities. Thanks @UNHCRInnovation

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

A very special day today as we launched our electronic repairs training activities at our new Life Skills Training Centre for Refugees with Disabilities in Johannesburg. All thanks to @UNHCRInnovation

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

Redeeming Hope's Outreach activities - feeling the pain of meeting a disabled refugee whose wheelchair has been stolen 😥

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

@SARefugee_Led Good question.

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

@SARefugee_Led In touch...

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

@SARefugee_Led @MMande5 @UNHCRSouthernAF @ICVAnetwork @OpenSociety @WeAreCohere_Org @KDhala @valerymbaoh @Oxfam Very good choice. Congratulations @MMande5 . Keep up the good work of advocacy, Leadership. And please continue ensuring the voices and concerns of refugees living with disabilities are heard and considered at such levels too.

[Redeeming Hope for the Disabled (RHD) @RDisabled]

2008 - 2023: 16 years of existence. What a journey for our organization:

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