ZAPDD was established to mobilize efforts through engaging stakeholders to address challenges facing persons with intellectual disabilities in Zanzibar.

n so doing ZAPDD as a non-service providing institution, runs advocacy programs by engaging service providers both public and private to advocate for them extend their services fairly to persons with intellectual disabilities in the society where marginalization of persons with intellectual disabilities in the social service institutions and facilities is still rampant. It also engages other actors in the community including planners and decision makers, as well as the formulators and implementers of various policies, programs and laws to advocate for reasonable accommodation of persons with intellectual disabilities in their areas of engagement.

ZAPDD was established to mobilize efforts through engaging stakeholders to address challenges facing persons with intellectual disabilities in Zanzibar.