Disability is not Inability

:: Footnotes.

1. Mahbub ul Haq wrote in the Human development Report UNDP 1990 as quoted in the 2006 HDR, pg. 263.

2. Economic Survey Report, 2007 Government of Kenya.

3. Aristotole, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapter 5

4. Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey - 2005/06 and Human Development Report UNDP 2006, pg 263.

5. A United Nations, (1988): World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons. Report which estimated that about 10-25 % of any populations are living with a disability: Government Economic Survey 2007 reports Kenyan population has grown to about 35 Million in 2007. Government Disability Survey is on-going July - August 2007.

6. Amartya Sen. 1999, pg 3. As noted in the Human development report 2006 pg. 273.

7. The government (which defines a “disability” to mean a physical, sensory, mental or other impairments, including any visual, hearing, learning or physical incapability, which impacts adversely on social, economic or environmental participation; according to the Persons with disability ACT 2004) has not come up with an effective integration strategy for the disabled people into the economic recovery strategy nor the long term development strategy called Kenya Vision 2030.

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