Barriers to conventional work
Physical access, transport, workplace attitudes, and inflexible systems can exclude capable people.
TurningPoint's flagship focus
AI for Livelihoods and Empowerment
We are building an accessible pathway from AI learning to dignified earning for persons with disabilities and people with limited mobility.
TurningPoint combines practical skills, supervised experience, mentorship, portfolio development, and connections to real assignments so that learners can participate confidently in the digital economy.
- Disability-led and accessibility-centred
- Practical, ethical, and market-aware
- Designed around real learning-to-earning pathways
The pathway
1LearnAccessible, practical AI and digital skills
2PractiseGuided assignments and responsible tool use
3BuildPortfolio, confidence, and client readiness
4ConnectFreelance, remote-work, and organisational opportunities
5Earn and leadIncome, peer mentoring, and inclusive growth
Why this matters
Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not.
Persons with disabilities often face inaccessible workplaces, mobility barriers, discrimination, and limited access to relevant training. Remote and AI-enabled work can expand opportunity, but training alone is not enough. Learners also need practice, mentoring, portfolios, safeguards, and links to genuine work.
Training-to-work gap
Many courses stop at certificates without supervised practice, portfolios, or realistic market preparation.
Need for responsible AI
Learners need safe, ethical, privacy-aware methods—not only access to fast-changing tools.
Our proposed model
From learning to earning
The pilot will test a practical pathway before scaling. TurningPoint staff and early learners will gain real-world experience, document lessons, and support future participants as credible peer mentors.
- 01
Identify strengths and barriers
Assess accessibility needs, existing digital skills, interests, equipment, and realistic livelihood pathways.
- 02
Deliver accessible skills development
Combine practical AI, digital work, communication, safeguarding, and responsible-use training.
- 03
Provide supervised practice
Use realistic assignments and feedback so participants can demonstrate competence, not only attendance.
- 04
Build portfolios and work readiness
Support profiles, samples, pricing awareness, client communication, and delivery standards.
- 05
Connect to opportunities
Develop relationships with NGOs, businesses, mentors, employers, and digital marketplaces.
- 06
Learn, improve, and scale
Track outcomes, document what works, and strengthen the model using participant experience.
Potential learning areas
Practical skills linked to real tasks
Practical AI tools for work
Prompt engineering
AI-assisted research and writing
Accessible document preparation
Digital content development
Data organisation and quality checking
Website content management
Client communication
Portfolio development
Responsible and ethical AI use
Important: Final skills will be selected through labour-market validation and participant assessment. TurningPoint will not promise income simply because someone completes training.
Why TurningPoint
Disability leadership, digital experience, and trusted networks
100OPD websites developed or supported
97active OPD websites documented in 2026
44districts represented in the digital ecosystem
6+years supporting OPD digital participation
TurningPoint is a Bangladesh nonprofit led by persons with disabilities. We combine lived experience, community relationships, safeguarding, programme delivery, and practical experience facilitating AI learning for civil society.
Explore our digital participation work
Ways to collaborate
Help test and strengthen an inclusive AI livelihoods pilot
Fund or sponsor
Support pilot delivery, accessibility, devices, connectivity, mentoring, and learning.
Provide expertise
Contribute trainers, mentors, market insight, accessible technology, or technical guidance.
Offer assignments
Provide suitable paid or supervised tasks that help learners build credible experience.
Research and evaluate
Collaborate on labour-market validation, outcome measurement, ethics, and evidence generation.
Start a conversation
Partner with TurningPoint
Tell us how you would like to engage. We welcome conversations with donors, employers, NGOs, companies, universities, technical experts, and prospective participants.
You may also email [email protected].