Disability is not Inability

:: The Ability Awards

Annual AWARDS for Recognition of success. ABILITY AWARDS aims to provide a recognition system in which successful PWDs of both gender will be given recognition through an annual awarding system that expemplifies the most innovation and tenacity in pursuing success.

The Ability Awards project was established with the view that self esteem is one of the major barriers to success that perosn with disabilities face in this very competitve society that Kenya has turned into.

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Lack of self-esteem bearing in mind limitations of disabilities is one of the main challenges that deniy persons with disabilities to fully maximise their large potential.

The need to role model the younger generation of people with disabilities cannot be underscored. This would significantly improve their livelihoods as the take over the baton of improving our livelihoods as a disability-friendly community.

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The visibility of the PWDs in the media is also of significant importance not only to the younger generation but also to the wider integration issues.

Ability awards working with the media will also encorage talk shows that bring to fore the challenges of disability; how the role model made it and what are the main principles that drive them.

This is critical not only to building more success stories but also to encouraging those with various talents and living with a disability not to sit and wait but work on their talents and make themselves get some recognition.

Annual AWARDS for Recognition of success.

ABILITY AWARDS aims to provide a recognition system in which successful PWDs of both gender will be given recognition through an annual awarding system that expemplifies the most innovation and tenacity in pursuing success.

The Awards are divided into categories that promote and encourage effort irrespective of gender and disability. They are therefore divided into these categories. Themes will be used to define the meriting of the overall award winners. These themes help alot in pushing certain buring issues that have to be addressed.

Awards specific to Achievements

Working with the other projects success in business, public service, or employee with disability of the year are other areas we wish to expand the awards into. Theses will work well with the need to make the awards specific to certain achievements that are critical to building a disability freindly society.

Public and Private sectors that have most adjustments to enable disability-freindliness and have also increased their capacity both in quality and quantity will also need be awarded to improve motivation for disability-friendly corporate initiative.

Ability International