Disability is not Inability

:: How did you spend your Valentine?
14th February 2007

Valentine day how did you spend it? disabilitykenya run around and found some interesting stories. The best was Moonlight Valentine VCT by Liverpool VCT and the most catchy was Nations story of a couple who are blind and had a great valentines Day in their rural humble homes. And Valentine did not know disability... Most of us however spent some time with our loved ones. unfortunately quite a number of us spent this time either drinking or making love. hoping that we used a condom during the sexual expeditions.

But what is Valentine? My friends from western smacked me in the face saying Valentine is a preserve of the rich people with disabilities. us poor we have no time to even think of valentine. We have very little to eat or wear why on earth would we be thinking about Valentine?

Some of us have no electricity let alone television so we have no time to know what others are doing or who is selling which flower.

Meanwhile, the business of flowers boomed mightliy. Plans were made as early as last year. many made improvements from what they did last year. Flowers were being delivered to offices all over town. Valentine is a great business opportunity. We need to learn from this uss who are seeking business opportunities.

We saw that in Japan they had chocolate Baths. Where chocolate was poured into a bathtab and chocolate was dripping from some tap above.

Its unfortunate we did not have valentine for the less fortunate. In 2004 during the official launch of the Deaf VCT there was a valentine ceremony for children with disabilities at the Stanley Hotel. The celebrations saw children with disabilities from various children's hommes like Dagorreti come for dinner at the prestigious Hotel.

Quite a number still had problem with their families, jobs, or relationships. Politicians were still busy throwing words at each other.I know quite a number of individuals expressed love during valentine in various was assisting various children here and there. Some bought presents for their mother, other were ashamed of their mothers.

Some brought presents for their children without disabilities and did not remember the other one who has disbilities. Some broke-up partners and run away with the other new catch, while some held on and nourished their long standing relationship.

We all made our choices, and we all need to learn from these choices and hope to make better choices next year.

Happy valentine

Disabilitykenya.

Category: Community policy

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