Disability is not Inability

:: www. disabilitykenya a website to consolidate disability in kenya was showcased recently during the 2006 International Disability Day 2006.

A site that provides services to the disabled people in Kenya was showcased in Kenya recently. The site www.disabilitykenya.org aims to provide disability-friendly education, health and business services apart from advocacy to the disabled free through the internet. The site is managed by OMEDA Enterprises, an enterprise with the objective of organising more education for disability advancement, provides also news and advocacy issues related to disability.

The site initiated by Omondi Joel working in conjunction with the Kenya National Deaf HIV/AIDs Programme KNDAEP, where he is the Programme Director and has used the vast experience in disability and network dto develop a one stop disability resource. It gives information about various organisation working within the disability community and their projects. It builds the capacity of the disabled to pursue inclusive life-opportunites in a language and context of disability in the Kenyan environment.

The objective is to provide disability-friendly information, education and communication services in an affordable, accessible and sustainable manner...'' said the Director of Omeda Enteprises.

We wish to encourage donors and the state to promote more ICT based projects among the disable community. The Disabled would benefit more from information and communication technologies than any other sector. disability-friendly Education, health, advocacy and communication issues can very easily be delivered through ICT technologies.

He noted that with the coming of the cable linking Kenya to the world , disabled people must also benefit from the economies of scale of lower internet access.

The site offers an opportunity to read materials in sign language. We develop alot of materials in sign language and upload it to the website...say pelitah a deaf staff at the office. We do alot of research and adopt different topics into sign language. I encourage more deaf people to learn web design or computers to be able to benefit from the Internet.

We should move from the traditional skills in capentry, tailory, masonry, etc that are taught in school but do not give us any employment. The government should donate more computers to schools and put internet to enable more disabled people to learn computers from class one, says Pelitah a deaf lady in the project who does most of the website content illustrations using computer software.

The future is IT, we must all learn how to use it if we are to be productive in the economy.

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