Impact of Physical Rehabilitation on Individual’s Income of Persons with Disabilities in Cheshire Services Ethiopia (Menagesha)

Abstract

Cheshire Services Ethiopia has two operational objectives: Physical rehabilitation and community-based rehabilitation in all its areas of intervention cites. This study focuses on how physical rehabilitation support makes a difference in the income of individual with disability. This topic is crucial in a sense that the organization will systematically organize its operation and intensify its services in all other areas, especially in the other outreach locations. The study is about to look how physical rehabilitation support becomes impactful on the lives of persons with disabilities. The methodology of this research entails the selecting of one site among the existing three clusters (i.e., Menagesha) with random sampling method 198 samples were selected from the locations. Then using propensity score matching was used to look at the effect of the difference between the treated and control group with the application of physical rehabilitation. On the results/findings of the study, It is obtained how physical rehabilitation impacted the change on individual income with the treatment under consideration. PSM method found that rehabilitation intervention brought a significant impact on the income of the persons with disability (13640.2747 of annual income change). Attention should be given to improve respondent income by further investment on different social basic services like access to education and health services at nearer distances to individuals, Cheshire Services Ethiopia should have to give emphasis for infrastructural development of the area and other intervention sites in collaboration with governmental and non-governmental actors since it affects individuals in different income and also has an implication towards accessibility, improving access to modern rehabilitation devices (or improving to the emerging would enhance individuals’ livelihood in terms of income, attention should be given to improve respondents’ livelihoods by further investment on different social basic services like access to education and technical assistance services at nearer distances to individual with disability. Moreover, attention should be given in providing education and other basic training for younger PWDs respondents in order to improve mobility of disabled persons