Among the WODF beneficiaries, there are some widows and orphans with physical, mental and skin disabilities. There are also widowed mothers and grandmothers who take of orphans with disabilities.
The economic situation of these mothers and grandmothers presents a challenge to them in meeting the basic needs and special needs of these children.

Widows in such a situation need special kind of support that include equipping them with skills and seed funding to enable them undertake income-generating activities so that they can be able to provide for these children who have unique needs.

WODF provides also direct support to the disabled widows and orphans such as mobility equipment (wheelchairs) as well as food, clothes and health care (health insurance) to enable them live fulfilling life. Using the wheelchairs, the disabled orphans are able to attend school unhindered while the disabled widows gain access to the livelihood activities such as running small income generating projects within their surroundings.

Widows pictured below take care of their orphaned grandchildren, one of them with albinism and another one with both physical and mental handicap.

For the child with albinism, special health care support is needed such as sunscreen jelly and lotion, sunglasses and other protective gears to help protect him against skin cancer which affects many of the people with albinism in tropical countries as a result of exposure to extreme sunburn. Apart from the health need of this albino child, the grand mother has also to ensure the security of the child due the harmful traditional belief associated with albinism which expose them to security vulnerability.

These grandmothers have therefore become full-time caregivers of their grandchildren thus limiting their time to undertake livelihood activities since they spend most of the time looking after their orphaned disabled grandchildren.

Such guardian grandmothers need support in many ways that include skills building and seed funding for them to start income generating projects as well as direct support such as food, clothes and access to health services in the form of health insurance for them and their orphaned grandchildren.