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The Disabled Refugees Projects (DRP) is a South African NGO that aims to to respond to critical issues affecting people living with disabilities in Gauteng, Johannesburg. The DRP advocates for their human rights, provides basic skills and organizes awareness campaigns to reduce their vulnerabilty to HIV/AIDS.

The organization runs a shelter for people with disabilities, many of whom are refugees and asylum seekers who were living in abandoned houses and on street corners, and subsequently were not identified during data collection or included in needs assessments by humanitarian agencies. The DRP has also organized computer literacy courses with the assistance of ORT South Africa and the Department of Social Development to ensure that people with disabilities become skilled, employable, self reliant and socially integrated

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