Our Programs
At Carto’s Disabilities Foundation, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live with dignity, independence, and hope.
Our mission is to remove the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from building secure, meaningful lives. We focus on practical support, access to healthcare, safe housing, skills development, and community inclusion, with special care for women and families facing poverty, homelessness, and social exclusion.
Through compassionate assistance, advocacy, and strategic partnerships, we connect people with resources, strengthen self-advocacy, and create pathways toward lasting independence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
We also work to ensure that support is shaped by the people and communities we serve. By listening to lived experiences, building trusted local partnerships, and measuring progress with care, we turn compassion into practical action.
Our goal is a more inclusive future where disability never limits a person’s voice, choices, or opportunity to thrive.
Restoring Mobility and Empowering Independence
01. Prosthetics and Mobility Assistance
Giving individuals the freedom to move. We facilitate access to prosthetic arms and legs, wheelchairs and mobility scooters, crutches, walkers, orthopedic braces, equipment repairs, and professional fittings and mobility assessments through partnerships with healthcare professionals and rehabilitation centers.
04. Advocacy and Community Inclusion
Every ability deserves recognition. We promote disability rights awareness, community education, accessibility advocacy, and partnerships that include persons with disabilities in education, employment, and community life.
Our Programs in Sierra Leone
02. Rehabilitation and Healthcare Support
Restoring strength, health, and confidence. We connect vulnerable individuals with physical therapy, medical consultations and screenings, prosthetic follow-up care, orthopedic healthcare, disability-related supplies, and referrals to qualified professionals.
03. Empowerment and Skills Development
Building abilities and creating opportunities through vocational and technical training, small-business assistance, entrepreneurship and financial literacy, accessible employment, mentorship, and community-based economic empowerment.
Restoring Dignity, Stability, and Hope
Our Programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
05. Accessible Housing and Homelessness Assistance
06. Essential Needs and Humanitarian Assistance
A safe place to begin again. We connect homeless individuals with physical disabilities to emergency shelters, transitional and supportive housing, application assistance, accessible accommodation referrals, and resources for long-term stability.
Compassion through action. We provide or coordinate food and nutrition, clothing and seasonal necessities, hygiene supplies, blankets, mobility aids, and community outreach and emergency support.
07. Healthcare Access and Rehabilitation
08. Pathways to Independence
Improving health and restoring independence by connecting individuals with community healthcare providers, physical therapy, disability-related medical resources, mobility equipment, preventive care, and medical transportation.
Rebuilding lives and creating new beginnings through independent living skills, employment readiness, benefits and social service navigation, financial literacy, community reintegration, and long-term support connections.