Disability is not Inability

:Dandora Deaf Self Help World AIDS & International Disability day Celebrations 4th December 2006.

World Aids day special happenned in Dandora face four. Sponsored by the Standard Charterted Bank, Dandora Deaf Self Help group organised over 200 deaf people to a series of events on December 1st 2006. Much can be said about the organisation and the coordination between the various sections and departments but the event at least the first day was a success.

The 3 day event saw presentations from Standard Bank in various areas including Herbal medicine, which happened to provide basic information on locally available ways to stay healthy. There we quite interesting drama from the Behaviour Change group from Machakos. Their drama if you were able to understand either in sign Language or through an interpreter was quite informative.

Apart from issues in deaf crowd management challenges that the Master of Ceremonies had and the issue with cordination of Interpreters all went well.

The Deaf officals in the organisation were quite active. There is need for more of these peer educators to be trained specifically on some of the skills. This would be helpful in providing more sustainable support for the Deaf living with AIDS.

During the second Day that is saturday the population of deaf peole attending increased considerably with more who work or are engaged elsewhere coming for the event. this is good because when more deaf peole get to know about some thing there is wider discusion and debate. I was impressed for example how the issues of treatment using water was widely debated. Many were not aware that water had so much preventitive and curative abilities. I learnt alot myself.

The fruits and their impact on body health. The improtance of eating well weather Positve or not. The issues that only people who are positive need to eat well was dispensed with at least amung the few who i spoke to.

There should be more suchntalks and more discussive environments to enable the deaf ask more questions and learn more.

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