ImInclusive | Disability Inclusion Service

it was great to attend this informative session at Financial Inclusion Week - thanks to ImInclusive | Disability Inclusion Service and Visa for your great work and advocacy for financial and economic empowerment of people with disabilities. Great insights on the contribution people with disabilities can make in designing financial products and services that are accessible to all. #FIW2024 #DisabilityInclusion #FinancialInclusion

This week we held the first Accessibility Reference Group for Yas Island, bringing together teams from ALDAR, Ethara, Abu Dhabi Government, Zayed Higher Organization for People of Determination مؤسسة زايد العليا لأصحاب الهمم, ImInclusive | Disability Inclusion Service, academics, and most importantly those with lived experience of disability (shoutout Peter Stoddart). The reference group has an ambitious agenda to accelerate inclusivity on Yas Island - and I think we are well and truly on the way! It was a particular privilege to work with Jessica Smith OAM PLY and Purple Tuesday in bringing this to life. Together, we will make Yas Island and Abu Dhabi the world leader in accessible, inclusive, and WOW experiences for people from all walks of life.

Carl Manlan and Hafsa Qadeer, inclusion impact leaders paired up to deliver a powerful fireside chat for FIW 2024 by Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI). The graphic representation captures different elements of their conversation, every individual deserves the right to build financial income and their future, and Visa CEMEA and ImInclusive are breaking the barriers each day towards a more inclusive world. Thanks to Dr. Adanna Chukwuma for curating an impeccable accessible event. #FinancialWeek #FIW24

I had the opportunity to attend a fantastic networking event organized by The Babe Movement this weekend. A heartfelt thank you to Zainab Hashim and Madiha Hashim, the founding sisters, for their dedication in bringing together such exceptionally talented and diverse professionals. The event featured an inspiring talk by none other than Hafsa Qadeer, founder of ImInclusive | Disability Inclusion Service. Thank you Hafsa for sharing your moving personal and professional journey, including the inception of now multi-award-winning project, ImInclusive. Your key takeaway—saying “No” can create more opportunities to say “Yes”—is a valuable lesson to be applied in professional and personal life. This event was a reminder of the power of networking and knowledge sharing. I look forward to making more valuable connections and growing together!! #Networking #ProfessionalDevelopment #Connections

🌍 Financial Inclusion Week 2024 is here! From October 15-18, the global community will come together to advance inclusive finance, sharing ideas, research, and perspectives that drive innovation in financial accessibility for all. 💼 As an affiliated partner of VISA, we’re excited to highlight their participation in a dedicated panel discussion with IMInclusive — the first digital hub of inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa. This fireside chat will focus on financial inclusion for people with disabilities, exploring challenges, opportunities, and market gaps in the current financial landscape. For more information, click the link below 🔗 https://shorturl.at/2ECXC #FinancialInclusionWeek #InclusiveFinance #Visa #IMInclusive #INNVEST #FinancialAccessibility #PartnershipForChange #innovationforall #innvest #imaa #fabioladuro

ImInclusive Annual Career Fairs bring together all of the stakeholders for results-driven disability inclusive employment partnerships. ImInclusive is proud to host its Dubai Annual career Fair 2024 in partnership with dnata and E&, bringing together employers to hire people with disabilities and award achieving employers with the UAE Ministry of Community Development. For more details, reach out to us at: operations@iminclusive.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

Our Annual Disability Inclusion Summit is coming to Dubai this October on the 30th! We welcome HR, Employers and business DEI representatives across the UAE to join us in Dubai. Location shared upon successful registration. We are most excited to bring this event as our annual milestones celebration in partnership with UAE Ministry of Community Development, E&, dnata and Visa. The registration is FREE and open to corporate representatives in limited spots only: https://lnkd.in/gfKgkeWU

🎉 Congratulations to the Standard Chartered Women in Tech accelerator 2024 cohort! 🎉 These 12 talented founders demonstrated remarkable dedication, passion, and innovation across various sectors like health, sustainability, education, and pitched their groundbreaking ventures at Demo Day on Thursday October 10th. We are excited to see the incredible impact they will continue to make. A special shoutout to the 3 winners: 🥇 BioSapien 🥈 siira.me 🥉 Archireef It has been an honour to support this inspiring cohort! 🚀 #SCWomenInTech EduPloyment Kanjo Health 2MO - Second Medical Opinion Ostaz Circa Biotech ImInclusive | Disability Inclusion Service Olive Gaea The Surpluss | Certified B Corp Takkul

Could you imagine a world where.. 🛫 -The leftovers on every plate isn't binned, but powers your next plane journey and transformed into high quality animal protein (Circa Biotech) 👩🦽 -A disability isn't an inability but a superpower that the best employers are looking for (ImInclusive | Disability Inclusion Service) 🩹 -Localized drug delivery for cancer is accessible, affordable, and your loved ones don't have to endure the heart-wrenching side effects of chemo (BioSapien) 👨💼 -Unemployment is a thing of the past, no matter where in the world you are, or what language you speak (EduPloyment) 🥘 -Unsold food isn't wasted, but made affordable, delicious, and locally available (Takkul) 📚 -Your geographic location will no longer dictate your access to high quality education (Ostaz) 💌 You no longer have to struggle with neurodiversity and pre-diagnosis is the new norm(Kanjo Health) 🏭 -Reaching net zero is no longer a pipe dream but within reach for every business, everywhere (Olive Gaea) 😷 -Misdiagnosis is a thing of the past with access to a second medical opinion at your fingertips (2MO - Second Medical Opinion) 👨👩👦 -You have an entire community that will make sure you never struggle with mental health, again (siira.me) 🌊 -Our coral reefs can be restored in a matter of weeks with cutting edge technology and brilliant scientists building scaleable substrates (Archireef) This isn't a ChatGPT-generated post on a utopian future. This is the world that these brilliant women are building, today, right here in the #UAE ! This was the final demo day for Standard Chartered - Women in Technology Accelerator. 🏅 A HUGE congratulations to the top 3 winners - Biosapien, Siira & Archireef, your work is remarkable. & to many more successes to all of the awesome female founders - when one woman wins, we all do. You know what I really love about C3 - Companies Creating Change? Only they could create such an atmosphere that brings the finalists so close together, rooting for one another, collaborating, sharing ideas and resources, and rooting for one another. 💘 This is what happens when you empower women & we are so here for it!!!! Olga Habre Vanisha S. Kevin Holliday Medea Nocentini thank you for your unparalleled efforts & passion for creating this space for all of us. The Surpluss | Certified B Corp #womenintech #standardchartered #c3 #climatetech #healthtech #MENA #UAE #innovation #circulareconomy #edutech #mentalhealth #startup #scaleup #womenfounders #femalefounders

We need impact leaders more than ever today, our work is critical and urgent more than ever now. In these times, I am glad our team have found support and mentorship with C3 - Companies Creating Change and Standard Chartered Women in Tech Program where multiple coaches, mentors and sounding boards have helped us to shape our impact models and to address our most critical challenges first. Last week brought my journey with C3 since 2022 to a new pinnacle, I presented ImInclusive | Disability Inclusion Service impact model to HE Alia Abdulla AlMazrouei, UAE Minister of State for Entrepreneurship, and Rola Abu Manneh along with an esteemed panel of dignitaries. I encourage every impact leader in the UAE to connect with: Medea Nocentini, Kevin Holliday, and their team, they are the heroes of the social impact initiatives in the UAE. Their every effort is contribution to millions of lives impacted. Congratulations BioSapien, Sirra, and Archireef founders for your well-deserved win for the Women in Tech program! it’s been an honor to have shared the journey with you all, including The Surpluss | Certified B Corp, Takkul, Kanjo, EduPloyment and Ostaz, the impact models are extra-ordinary. I hope to see more and more female impact leaders rooted in purpose succeed in every domain of life and business.