Physical Health Kenya Project #2364

Support 100 disabled youth with Assistive devices.

by Action Network for the Disabled

Project Report | Sep 16, 2015
Excited About Change

By Fredrick Ouko | Executive Director

Greetings from the field,

I thought it would be a nice thing to feed you-in with a few things we are handling at the moment.It is indeed an exciting moment for the organization to re-think our strategic direction in terms of the work we do within the community. We have had an opportunity to look inward,around our environment and the outside world as we position ourselves to create impact in our community.

Our board and the staff believe that we have a unique opportunity to influence lives of thousands of persons with disabilities through a two-pronged approach.This will mainly be through education and sustainable livelihoods and putting a key focus on children with disabilities and young people.

We are currently refining these strategies and will be able to share with all of you at an appropriate time in the next two months or so,we have also come up with a particular strategy to address our work on issues of disability and employment.The strategy is going to enable us scale our work and apply the use of technology to accelerate employment of persons with disabilities across board.

All this cannot be possible without your support,the donations that you continuously give to this project allow us to facilitate the mobility of persons with disabilities within our programs so that they can lead independent lives and take up other challenges in nation building.

We thank you exceedingly for your commitment to this course and continue counting on your support

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Aug 4, 2015
Going Strong

By Fredrick Ouko | Executive Director

Sports kits donation to one of our schools

Dear Friends!

It has been a while! and a lot has been happening on our front,i am hoping you are all doing great in your various duty stations or fields of passion.

We are indeed grateful that you still find time to support our work in various ways,our success is only possible through your endless dedication to the vision of Action Network for the Disabled and it is the enabler of the impact we are able to see during our initiative implementation period.

Jane* had just received news from her application with a local company that she had been successful with her interview and offered a job,but little did she know that something was to come in between. Her crutches broke just when about to report to her new posting,she was lost in her own world since she didnt have enough money to buy new ones yet she needed this job like never before.On contacting us,we were able to offer her new crutches enabling her to report to her new job without any hindrace,she was very grateful for this help which was on time. Her story is the story of many who cannot afford the mobility aids when in need.

We are very thankful for your help that enables us to support people like Jane* to regain their mobility and lead independent lives.

Of interest,we have started an inclusive sports project targeting children with disabilities in five primary schools within Nairobi,it has been fun working with these children and witnessing the power of sports as a social change agent breaking barriers that exist between those children without disabilities and their colleagues with disabilities ,we are excited and are ready to continue with this project into the coming year given the benefits realized.

Once in a while when you have time,please check weekly updates on our facebook to see what we are upto.We thank you for remaining committed to our work and for encouraging your friends and colleagues to support us.

Thank you!

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Mar 27, 2015
New frontiers in the new year!

By Fredrick Ouko | Director

We are nearly done with the first quarter of this year and it has been as busy and eventfully as never before! Alot of planning and new projects to advance our vision in the works.

We hope your year started off well and great plans abound for this year in your areas of influence and at a personal level.We are also hopeful that you remain our ardent supporter because it is your sacrifice and those of many others that enable us to deliver on our mission of helping persons with disabilities in Kenya.

As an organization,we are undergoing a critical planning stage that will enable us refine our modes of operations and ensure an effective delivery of on our mission using minimal resources.We are well aware that resources are scarce everywhere,the more reason we are indeed indebted to your generosity in supporting our work and encourage you to recruit your family and friends to join up together in furthering this course.

On our recent visit to a Kenyan maximum prison,we found out that there are prisoners who have a disability and would greatly do with mobility support to be able to move around within the confines of the prisons.We have put in place mechanisms to ensure that wheelchairs,elbow crutches and white canes are delivered to them to ensure that their mobility is maintained within the prison and thus avoid facing dehumanising conditions.

This cannot be possible without your continued support,it is in our belief that even those who offend the law still have their human rights and need to be taken care of;it is therefore not different for prisoners with disabilities. We wish it would be allowable to take photos within a prison so that we can present the situation as it is,unfortunately this is not possible due to the laws governing such institutions.

We will do more with prisoners with disabilities including teaching them skills that they can use once they are out of prison to earn their own income.

A new project on inclusive sports has been started targeting children with disabilities linking them with their peers in neighbouring schools to stimulate interactions and friendships.We are also implementing a project targeting women with disabilities and access to health especially issues around maternal child nutrition aimed at reducing child mortality and increase access to healthcare.

We will keep you informed once our new strategic plan is complete so that you can share with us in the bigger vision as consolidate our efforts towards making Kenya a better place for persons with disabilities.

Thank you for your continued support,it is a vote of confidence in our work.

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