Abstract:
Disability is equated to no education, employment and training in many developing countries around the
world. Within the field of entrepreneurship education, there is a dearth of models specifically designed to
address education, employment and training of people with disabilities. Hephapreneurship is a neology and an
alternative model aimed at filling this sustainable development gap. Crafted within the field of career
psychology, hephapreneurship finds expression in the Fofa (fly) project of the University of Pretoria in South
Africa. The project aims to assist youth with little or no functional speech. Participants have different types of
disabilities but they express a desire for work and making meaning of their lives. This alternative model is
suggested within the multi-sectorial context of career guidance and disability in order to address the disability
employment problems experienced by many disabled people. The model follows the philosophy of
existentialism with a social constructivist and transformative paradigm in helping youth with little or no
functional speech to make meaningful contributions to their lives and those of others.Hephapreneurship is
perceived to bring hope to the hopeless.
