Disability is not Inability

:: Our 2007 signed Calender did not get a donor

OMEDA Enterprises developed a creative concept in calender publishing. the concept involved signed dates from 1 to 30 for each of the months using signs made by school children in uniform. The days of the week were signed by what implies teachers of the schools and weekends were signed by parents. All the signs were illustrated in-house.

The objective was to come up with a calender that was also a teaching aid. Most of the the children with disabilits do not have instruction materials availabe for them either at home ot in school. The calender not only teaches counting and days of the week to children with hearing impairments in schools but also to teach parents.

The calender also selected several thematic issues related to stigma met on children with disabilities starting from family, community and national level. it advoicated for equal love for CWD, equal access to health, equal access to free productive education, etc. Such were presented in large illustrations on each month orf the twelve pages. The calender proposal was for A2 paper size prinitng 5,000 copies at about Kshs 180 a calender various quotaions from various printers. Design costs totaled about Kshs. 300,000


While it is usually such a task to get funding for disability related projects we were late in putting the concept into the market for a donor to respond. we managed to try three organisations including Barclays proposal signed calender, Standard Chartered and UNICEF. but because we did not know that calenders are projects that start as early as August all of them gave us regrets.

It was an interesting learning experience and we hope somebody would come up this year 2007 to support the project.

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