First let us think about how persons can become dis-empowered.

Priya is 16 years old. She was four when she had polio. She went to the primary school near her home for a few years, but it was difficult for her to climb the stairs or to go the bathroom by herself. Her mother had to stay in the school to help her daughter. After a few years, she stopped going to school.

She moves with the help of a stick and helps her family with house work. She does not have many friends and few opportunities, as she can not go out of the house.

Perhaps you will agree that Priya has very limited actual choices in her life and can not take many decisions regarding her own life. Thus her empowerment is limited.