The Deaf Empowerment Firms Aims To Transform The Economic Landscape Of The Deaf Community
The Deaf Empowerment Firms Aims To Transform The Economic Landscape Of The Deaf Community. The Deaf Empowerment Firm (DEF) is a diversity and inclusion solutions social enterprise working to fulfil the needs of South Africa’s rapidly changing business environment by providing transformation solutions to its clients that enhance the growth and sustainability of their businesses and make a positive impact on the business bottom line.
For historical reasons and based on the fact that Deaf people in in South Africa face additional barriers to economic emancipation, the company’s focus is mainly on the transformation of the economic empowerment landscape for members of the Deaf community.
Its approach is aligned to talk to its clients’ transformation policies, create value proposition with tangible outputs and integrate Deaf individuals within corporate South Africa and communities at large. Its clients have found value in the solutions the company provides to enhance their business strategies as well as their role in the country’s inclusion agenda.
The intention of DEF is to be part of the solution in integrating South Africans with disabilities into the economy, create awareness and contribute meaningfully to creating space for economic participation by members of the Deaf community. All its services are structured to enhance the client’s transformation strategy. The company believes inclusive transformation and integration is a sustainable strategy for any company’s growth.
The Deaf Empowerment Firm provides its clients with solutions that add value to their diversity and inclusion strategies and contribute to their business’ bottom line. Its vision is to create an economic eco-system inclusive of members of the Deaf community so it matches this vision to its client’s transformation strategies. The aim being to reduce the very high unemployment rate of Deaf people in South Africa by providing solutions that allow its clients to tap into this under utilised work force and maximise their participation in the economy.
The company’s solutions place value rather than compliance at the centre of their transformation, diversity and disabilityinclusion strategies as it believes that employers cannot build back better with a narrow compliance focus. Its clients buildback better by maximising the worth Deaf employees bring to their businesses.
