Our Vision
To be a top rated, disability NGO with focus on promoting the creativities/potentials of people with disabilities and to achieve a lot for our group politically, socially, economically, and vice versa.

NAHCAN Mission Statement
Our mission is to undertake activities and programmes that will promote and enhance social, political and economic empowerment of the disabled people to enable them occupy their rightful place in the society, and also to ensure that favourable laws, policies and legislations are made to promote and enhance their fundamental human rights, equal participation and opportunities, economics and social welfare.

NAHCAN Objectives
The following are the objectives that informed the establishment of NAHCAN.

• To Unite all Nigerian Handicapped people irrespective of their social, political, economical backgrounds, ethnicity or nature of disability.

• To promote public awareness among the able and disabled populace on happenings in the society or nation that affects their lives and rights.

• To debunk the erroneous belief that disabled people are intellectually inferior and as such intellectually incapable to author books, engage in journalism, etc. To correct the social imbalance in employment opportunities available for the disabled Nigerian and to make contact with employment agencies both private and public on the provision of jobs for, handicapped Nigerians.

• To establish a handicapped telecommunications systems like Telephone, Fax, IBM Typewriters, Computers, etc and to undertake the training of handicapped person in handling these equipment, education, journalism, etc.

• To influence the profession and self-reliance of the special needs person and to discourage destitution, emphasize welfare and support for the special need person and thus help managed the destitute people off the streets.

Funding/Sponsorship
NAHCAN as a not for profit organization rely on  finance or revenue accruing from sales of some of its product to members of the public like the magazine and newspapers, calendars, greeting cards handmade artworks, etc. Our patrons also made donations as well as corporate organisations and government. Individual philanthropists as well as international donor agencies are also welcome to assist us in fulfilling our responsibilities to our fellow disabled brothers and sisters in need as well as finance and execute our various projects. 

Membership
NAHCAN is open to all desiring to be a member of Carers family you may come from any profession whether you are disabled or not people who cares for the well being of disabled, orphan, old age and invalid, etc. Carer givers can be anybody who is interested in working for humanity. Categories of membership includes (i) Student Members (ii) Ordinary Members and (iii) Associate/Patrons Donor members.

Why we need your support
Ideas are preponderant but lack of funds and support is thwarting our lofty goals and objectives of taking the disabled out of their present hopeless situation where begging and destitution is the order of the day. Help us to put as stop to this public menace, your support morally financially can go a long way and serves as a catalyst towards our growth and development as well as entrenching positive attitudinal and behavioral change and patterns towards the disabled by the Nigerian Public.

Please send your contributions and widow's mite to us. All donations and funds/sponsors will be acknowledged and made judicious use of.

OUR CONTACT ADDRESS

National Handicapped Carers Association of Nigerian (NAHCAN)
14, Yahaya Abatan Street, Aguda-Ogba, Lagos. 
P. O. Box 13842, Ikeja-Lagos.
Tel: 234-1-4523340, 4520213, 0802 8365959, 0803 3287711, 08042105451, 0803 7174598
Fax: 4521998, 4968409 E-mail: carers@carers.8k.com url: http://www.carers.8k.com