The challenge, therefore, is how to educate those in responsible positions to hire PWDs. Like everything else, this requires massive investment in information gathering, dissemination, awareness raising workshops, and radio and television programmes. We come now to the third option, one that is no less challenging, but that is about the only one left in a world where paid employment is fast shrinking. These are economic activities of PWDs either in groups and cooperatives or as individuals. A cooperative is normally registered, has a constitution that regulates its function, and is usually supervised, or monitored, by some organ of the state.
Cooperatives can exist in both capitalist and socialist-oriented economies.
Before we go any further, there is one issue we must clear. We are here definitely talking about genuine self-reliant efforts, not those that are for ever and ever dependent on donor funding. To be sure, they are then no different. They must then fall in the first option analyzed earlier. The more so, if the money is taken as a loan rather than as a grant.