Disability is not Inability

:: The Disability Advocacy

The visibility of the disability community is essential for the community to be accepted as a part and parcel of Kenya society with the necessari citizenship rights and responsibilities.

There is a tendency in most societies either ignore or assume the disability community as lesser citizens who can only be represented but have no self generated rights. Many people therefore make decisions based on attitudes assumed or built from cultural misconceptions. The need for awareness on the potentials within disability is quite important in ensuring the community's values are appreciated and included in the national product definition and distribution.

This requires widespread advocacy on the achievements, limitations, challenges, and potentials and adjustments required to enable equal partcipation for the community.

The need for empowerment of this community therefore becomes necessary. Empowerment is a two way process. empowerment of the community and empowerment of the wider society to build disability-intelligence.

The need for rumps or lifts when building housing, The need for signs that communicate also to people with hearing impairments; the need for braille signs in buildings; the need for sign language skilled personnel in various social facilities; these are examples of disability intelligence that many developing society including Kenya lack.

To build social disability intelligence, the role of the community in showcasing its abilities, limitations, challenges, and potentials cannot be overemphasised.

The programme targets to achive this through various inclusion or visibility projects:

:: Visibility Projects:

:: A Talk Shows on Disability

:: TV commercials like Disability AIDS Video with the First Lady.

:: Adoption of national campign publicity Materials Like "I am Proud to be Kenyan" in sign language.

:: Lobbying for disability sensitive Media

:: Partnerships for Civic education for PWD communities.

:: Publishing materials.

Ability International

Category: Inclusion, education

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