This is what inclusion looks like

Whether you’re a trainee, jobseeker or employee with a disability, or a business owner who’s made your workplace more inclusive, we all have a story to tell.

Share your experience on social media using a picture, quote or video that shows how or why inclusion work, and the impact from your point of view.

Examples

Here are some examples of what you could talk about in your social media posts or videos:

“This is what inclusion looks like. Undertaking training and learning new skills has made me feel like my company trusts me and that I can do the job.”

“This is what inclusion looks like. Our employees challenged us on the accessibility of our building, systems and processes and we’ve worked together to make these more inclusive.”

Assets

If you would like to use one of our Inclusive Futures-branded photo frames to share your message, please download our editable template. If you would like to add an end frame to your video please email [email protected] and we can assist you.

If you are not able to record a video or use an image, please feel free to share our pre-prepared social media asset instead.

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Links

Add a link to our Inclusive Futures website to your social media posts so that people can learn more: https://inclusivefutures.org/how-to-include-people-with-disabilities-in-work/

Guidance

• Share posts on your personal social media profiles using #InclusiveFutures.
• Tag @Sightsavers and other Inclusion Works partners in your posts.
• Don’t forget to add alt text to images and captions to videos to make them accessible.

If you would prefer to share a pre-populated post about the Inclusive Futures programme, choose from one of the general or country-specific suggestions below.

Either click to tweet or copy and paste the text to share on other channels. Don’t forget to add alt text to your posts.

Learnings from partners

Looking for ways to make your workplace more inclusive? It’s not only the right thing to do, it can also be cost-free. https://inclusivefutures.org/five-cost-free-ways-to-make-workplace-disability-inclusive/ @inclusionintl #InclusiveFutures

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Follow the money: how to track public spending on disability inclusion. https://inclusivefutures.org/tracking-public-spending-on-disability-inclusion/ @devinitorg #InclusiveFutures

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“Ask, don’t assume.” Through the #InclusiveFutures economic empowerment programme, @devinitorg learned many things about how to better use #data to #LeaveNoOneBehind. https://inclusivefutures.org/disability-data-and-inclusion/

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“We invited disability activists or experts to explain how they wanted to be portrayed.” This is what inclusion looks like: five steps to shifting journalists’ – and the public’s – attitudes to disability. https://inclusivefutures.org/five-steps-to-shifting-journalists-and-the-publics-attitudes-around-disability/ @BBCMediaAction

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If placing individuals with disabilities into jobs does not create sustainable inclusive employment, what else should be done? @IDA_CRPD_Forum on equalising access to the labour market for persons with disabilities. https://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/blog/equalising-access-labor-market-persons-disabilities #InclusiveFutures

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General posts

Over the last three years, #InclusiveFutures has worked with more than 400 employers and 2,300 jobseekers across #Bangladesh, #Kenya, #Nigeria and #Uganda to enable people with disabilities to claim their right to work. www.inclusivefutures.org  

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It’s estimated that making employment more accessible to people with disabilities could add $6 trillion to the global economy every year. Help your business create more #InclusiveFutures for all. https://inclusivefutures.org/disability-confident-employers-toolkit/

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Add alt text: Decorative asset with text: ‘As few as 12% of people with disabilities are employed in low- and middle-income countries.’ The number ‘12%’ is emphasised in bold.

Fact: People with disabilities must have equal opportunities to get a job. But they’re twice as likely to be unemployed compared to non-disabled people.

Together, we can create more #InclusiveFutures for all. https://inclusivefutures.org/disability-confident-employers-toolkit/

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Add alt text: Decorative asset with text: ‘All over the world, a person with a disability is less likely to be employed than a person without a disability.’ The words ‘less likely’ are emphasised in bold.

Enhancing jobseekers with disabilities with skills and knowledge to compete in the job market is essential to creating more #InclusiveFutures. Here’s the proof. https://inclusivefutures.org/evidence-and-resources/  

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Bangladesh

This is what inclusion looks like. Having a conversation with people with disabilities and acting on their experience of what needs to change. https://inclusivefutures.org/disability-confident-employers-toolkit/ #InclusiveFutures

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Add alt text: Decorative image with quote: “There will not be any barriers anywhere, be it at home or in the workplace.” Mohua Paul, Access Bangladesh Foundation.

Kenya

This is what inclusion looks like. Making sure business leaders are supported to drive inclusion in their workplace. Learn more. https://inclusivefutures.org/disability-confident-employers-toolkit/ #InclusiveFutures @EABL_PLC

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Add alt text: Decorative asset with quote: “One of the challenges we had before is that we didn’t know how to do it.” Eric Kiniti, East African Breweries Limited.

This is what inclusion looks like. Enhancing jobseekers’ confidence by giving people the skills and knowledge they need to compete in the job market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w12ZJzrJWDs #InclusiveFutures @SustHosAlliance

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Add alt text: Decorative image with quote: “It has given me a sense of feeling like Radisson trusts me, that I can do the job.” Manuel Mwangala, Radisson Blu Porter

Nigeria

This is what inclusion looks like. Building the disability-confidence of employers and the employment readiness of jobseekers with disabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpgY9AaI6pw&list=PLjEIKBc63MPSwd1-rigBpdAQYggIiHusL&index=3  #InclusiveFutures

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Add alt text: Decorative image plus quote, “Disability for me does not affect anything. The appraisals that we get, speaks for itself.” Ogahale Amuni, Customer Care Representative

This is what inclusion looks like. Transforming the labour market system, building employers’ disability-confidence and enhancing jobseekers’ with the skills and knowledge to compete in the job market. https://inclusivefutures.org/disability-confident-employers-toolkit/ #InclusiveFutures

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Add alt text: Decorative image plus quote, “Inclusion Works is transforming the labour market system. We are creating disability confident employers.” Rasak Adekoya, Sightsavers Nigeria

This is what inclusion looks like. Bringing employers and jobseekers with disabilities together to create more inclusive workspaces for all.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpgY9AaI6pw&list=PLjEIKBc63MPSwd1-rigBpdAQYggIiHusL&index=3 #InclusiveFutures

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Add alt text: Decorative image plus quote, “The issue of inclusion with regards to disability in the workplace is non-negotiable.” Timothy Olawale, Nigeria Employer’s Consultative Association

Uganda

This is what inclusion looks like. Challenging negative attitudes and incorrect stereotypes about people with disabilities and their ability to work. https://inclusivefutures.org/disability-confident-employers-toolkit/ #InclusiveFutures @IDS_UK

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Add alt text: Decorative image with quote: “I hope we can encourage employers to hire persons with disabilities.” Eric Wakoko, IDS Uganda

This is what inclusion looks like. Bringing together employers and employees with disabilities to make the workplace more inclusive. Learn more. https://inclusivefutures.org/disability-confident-employers-toolkit/ #InclusiveFutures @StanChart

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Add alt text: Decorative image with quote, “The experience for me has been eye opening. It’s been a learning journey.” Munyori Evans, Standard Chartered Bank.

This is what inclusion looks like. Making sure people with disabilities aren’t disproportionately impacted in their job search by building back inclusively post-pandemic. https://inclusivefutures.org/losing-your-income-during-covid-19-how-inclusive-futures-is-supporting-people-with-disabilities/ #InclusiveFutures

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Add alt text: Decorative image plus quote, “Before the coronavirus, it was even hard for a person with a disability to find a job.” Naome, jobseeker in Uganda.