Empowering 1000 People Living With Disabilities

Many disabled people in Nandi County, as in other counties in Kenya and developing countries in the world, live in poverty, have limited opportunities for accessing education, health, suitable housing and employment opportunities. Majority continue to face stigmatization in the society mostly due to lack of awareness of their rights despite the government policy of mainstreaming disability in all government ministries. While noting that some persons with disabilities have not been aggressive to participate in public life, opportunities to promote positive perception and awareness of their contribution to the society has also been limited. PWDs need to be empowered to be self-reliant and fend for themselves. To boost their living standards PWDs need to initiate and manage their own activities and compete effectively in job and products markets. County Government of Nandi need to build capacities of the grassroots levels to effectively support the full participation of men and women entrepreneurs with disabilities in entrepreneurship development activities by invoking advocacy and awarenessraising activities to promote decent work for persons with disabilities. On the other hand, the County Government of Nandi needs to actualize Persons with Disabilities Act, 2003 that provides for the rights and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities; to achieve equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities. It further provides a comprehensive legal framework which outlaws all forms of discriminative treatment of persons with special needs and disabilities. This includes, among others, access to education and training. It provides for adaptation of infrastructural, socio-economic and environmental facilities to ensure a conducive environment for persons with special needs and disabilities. The Children’s Act (2001) harmonizes all existing laws and policies on children into one document and aims at improving the wellbeing of ALL children irrespective of whether they are disabled or not.

After receving our first disbursment of funds, we have embacked on the project empowering 1000 PWDs, the organisation has begun with the first quater number of the PWDs in Nandi county and Muranga County.

We are out to create sustainable jobs for the PWDs and all the their caregives by:

a) Putting up a disability center that will serve the entire Muranga and central Kenya as a whole. 

b) Provision of bedings and assitive divieses to PWDs in Nandi county

We are at a servy stage after identification of land in Muranga county where we intend to put up a community disability center that will host at list 500+ PWds, we have reached out to the local leadership of the area and we area in advance stages of putting this up 

We inten to have a partneship with the county government majorly with health CEC who will be providing therapitical assistance and provision of assement during the running of the school.

In Nandi county we have manage to distribute a number of beddings to very poor PWDs within the county and we shall also be patnering with the cou ty to provide a number od sustainable jobs within the county all these will be direct benefints and money making for the PWDs 

The project will promote opportunities for people with disabilities, to obtain decent and productive work, based on the principles of freedom, equity, security, and human dignity. This will be achieved through decent work, advocacy, knowledge building, and technical cooperation services and partnerships. It will boost the living standards of PWDs where they initiate and manage their own activities and compete effectively in job and product markets.