Disability is not Inability

::Competition for donor funds getting nusty
23rd November 2006

Have you noticed one thing within the civil society? The more democratic the government becomes the more harder it is for Civil Society organisations to get funding. To ensure they get the next round dirty tricks and games are used to hoodwink donors in an effort to prove relevance.

The civil society have been accused many a times of profiting from the suffering of others. this trend has become so strong that they are now supported by developmant theories that perpetuate their existence. researchers get PHDs these days just to proof that the dependancy on services provided by some outsider who walks one day with money on one hand and workplan on the other is the penacea of economic development.

While this has mainly been successful where governments have abdicated their responsibilities to their citizens or work hand in hand with the civil organisations to ensure donor funds keep rolling in to oil their pockets, the perpetuation of their stay is an unfortunate calamity in conceiving homegrown development dynamics.

The improving governance situation in Africa is rendering them out of business. many will engineer civil wars among communities to justify their existence, many would hand in incredible reprots to prove their keep but by and by they are seeing the need to change tactics or business all together.

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The Civil society within AIDs would dread such a headlines. Within the local arena, the fact that there is a solution in sight for HIV/AIDS is sending many jitters. They will wish to prove beyond what is not the actual case. The same painful change is taking place all over. it is our prayer that even as the Kenya and many African Governmments take over more social responsibilites and fund it from their local resources, Civil societies will also see the light and propagate the kind of programmes that empower the local communites. One such area is the disabilty sector.

The time has now come that disabled people need to be empowered to fulfill their own potentialities. The time has come that it should be realised that disabilty is actually more a challenge of the system and the individual. A public facility funded by public funds need to provide public service. Public service should be accessible to ALL.

It is true that dissabled peopel can take better advantage of the livelihoods with more education. But such education begins with the parents of disabled children. Parent need to see some assiatnce from the government in education and health that they can keep their children in school to grow and become independent, reponsible adults.

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