One voice. One community. Equal opportunities.
We're a disability-led NPO working to make South African provinces easier to live in — for blind people, wheelchair users, and everyone whose disability makes daily life harder than it needs to be.
We started with two apps for blind users — Vision and Page2Braille — and a partnership with EchoesLife. This website is where we lay out everything we want to build next, and an open invitation to help us get there.
This October, we're distributing wheelchairs to people in need in Mthatha. Reach out if you'd like to nominate someone, volunteer on the day, or help fund a chair.
Provincial Disability Forum was founded by three people who each ran into a different wall — and decided to build ramps instead of just complaining about the stairs.
Founder & President · Blind
Blind, with years of relationships across schools for the blind and disability organisations across the country. Sets the direction of the Forum and leads our partnerships with the schools and organisations who test and use what we build.
Secretary · Blind
Blind, with a wide network of contacts across advocacy groups and blind community organisations countrywide. Keeps the Forum organised and makes sure our work reaches the people it's meant for.
Access & Product Lead · Wheelchair user
A civil engineer before a spinal cord injury, and a software developer since. Understands both why a ramp gets built wrong and how to build the app that tells you where the ramp is. Leads our work on physical access and product.
We didn't wait for funding to start. Vision and Page2Braille are already out in the community, alongside our partnership with EchoesLife — proof that we can ship, not just plan.
An assistive app built for blind users. vision.echoeslife.com
Converts written pages into braille. page2braille.pages.dev
A social media app built specially for blind users, run by our partner. echoeslife.com
This is the honest version of a strategy document. We don't have funding yet, so we're starting with what our founders' skills and networks already make possible — and going wider from there, one partnership at a time.
Turn our existing relationships with schools for the blind into a standing feedback loop — a place to test new features and new apps before they go out to everyone.
Start with what schools and organisations can spare: a lending shelf of braille books and audio recordings, growing one donation at a time.
Pair people who've been navigating blind for years with people who are newly losing their sight, for the practical knowledge that doesn't come in a pamphlet.
A volunteer service that converts municipal notices, timetables and forms into audio or braille on request, so information stops being the first barrier.
Walk or roll through public buildings, clinics and schools, then hand the people who run them a short, specific report on what's blocking access — and how to fix it.
Team up with local workshops to service and refurbish mobility devices for people who can't afford repairs, a few Saturdays a year to start.
A simple, community-updated map of accessible entrances, ramps, and toilets — starting in our own town and growing as more people contribute.
Offer small contractors and municipal planners a free sense-check on accessibility before they pour concrete, not after.
Match people recently affected by disability with someone further down the road, for the practical, unglamorous stuff nobody explains upfront.
A donated, passed-on collection of magnifiers, old phones set up as screen readers, grab bars and walking aids — matched to whoever needs them next.
Short, free courses run by us, using our own apps and journey as the case study — practical tech skills aimed at real jobs.
Half-day sessions built from lived experience rather than a textbook, helping teachers and managers work with disabled learners and staff.
Collect concerns from disabled residents and channel them, in an organised way, to municipal and provincial disability desks.
Regular meetups for the people supporting someone with a disability, so they have somewhere to ask questions too.
We need people before we need money. If any of this fits what you can offer, we want to hear from you.
Help run a workshop, test an app, join a repair day, or convert documents into accessible formats. No experience required — just willingness.
Get in touch →Schools, clinics, disability organisations and municipalities: let's talk about a pilot, an audit, or a referral relationship.
Start a conversation →Engineer, developer, occupational therapist, teacher, or none of the above but good at getting things done — tell us what you're good at.
Tell us more →We're a young NPO and we don't have online payments set up yet. Here's what support looks like right now, in order of what actually helps us today.
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Money isn't the only thing that moves us forward. Right now, we could put these to work immediately:
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