Disability is not Inability

:: Leadership is thinking out of the box...

This thinking out of the box requires much reading and research. It enables building skills not common in your community. It involves discipline and patience even with various stakeholders as they express positions that may be opposite or conflicting. But necessary to be able to construct where we need to go.

It will also help the leader to identify and construct the values that build and destroy the community. These values a leader need to believe practice them first for the community to experience them. For only after they see these values in you would they put them on.

It involves discipline, patience and tenacity even with various stakeholders as they express positions that may be opposite or conflicting. But necessary to be able to construct where we need to go.

Its then that you can successfully implement legislation that punishes corruption. That hard work would be appreciated as they learn hard work from you. Such training and practice involve sacrifices necessary to your leadership to be accepted.

The character that is built by such sacrifices are also the building blocks for the values that would express the power required to rid the community its evils and build the governance structures necessary to mobilize beneficial but painful reforms.

After identifying where we need to go there of course has to be indicators of movement. The indicator need to be agreed by consensus and such consensus need to also agree on measurement of the indicators. This is especially important because different sectors of the constituency will achieve set goals at different times. Those who achieve first should pull those who lag behind, while those who lag behind should not become dependant on handouts.

If the led do not see the attributes the leader preaches in the character of the leader such do not translate into power that governance institutions can execute fairly.

The disability community is faced with insurmountable challenges only because the many leaders within have not risen to the challenge. There are many young men and women leaders; deaf, blind and physically disabled etc with the humility required to learn from others, to gain the strength required to built the structures that can see more inclusive education, health employment and employment opportunities.

One such opportunity is found in the digital world. This is the only single opportunity that if marshaled effectively through education, training and building access structures both in and out of school opens the persons with any disability to limitless opportunities available in the world without any traditional barrier. Disability-Kenya is an effort to walk the digital talk.

We need to have consensus on actions and targets. Such means we need to know before we begin the journey just how to define success. How education health and employment challenges can be overcome for persons with hearing, visual, physical, mental and whatever disabilities in a developing country like Kenya with all the challenges of electricity coverage, banking, communication etc.

As we marshal our resources to build what we need to reach there and cultivate the sacrifices are involved to marshal forward motion. It is only then can we share the feel-good experience when we reach sectors, industry or regional goals. When a majority of sectors have made benchmarks then significant populations would feel good enough to toast to the dawn in Canaan.

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