Matters Disability
Muscular Dystrophy
In our diverse and ever-evolving world, the significance of inclusivity and understanding cannotbe overstated. Among the many facets of diversity, visible disab...
Important Steps Your Company Can Take For Inclusivity
Companies that recognize and value the importance of hiring and retaining employees with disabilities know what is needed to provide a culture and workplace tha...
Persons With Disabilities In Kajiado County Benefit From Inua Jamii Funds
BY KNA's Seline NyangerePersons with disabilities in Kjiado County are among the 10,534 vulnerable residents who received money from the Inua Jamii cash transf...
Parents Encouraged To Enrol Children With Disabilities In Schools
BY KNA's Linet WafulaThe Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE) has urged parents of children with various forms of disabilities not to hide them at home b...
Disability Pride Month: Know Your Rights
July is Disability Pride Month, however, not yet officially recognized in Kenya and many other countries.According to the Human Rights Watch Website, July was c...
Gov't Urged To Involve PWDs In Tree Planting Campaign
Tessie Musalia, the wife of Prime Cabinet Secretary, Musalia Mudavadi, in partnership with the National Police Service (NPS), persons with disabilities (PWDs),...
Deafblind Awareness Week
Deafblind Awareness Week is an annual event that is observed in the United States and Canada during the last week of June, however, for the purpose of disabilit...
DP Gachagua hosts Special Olympic team, gifts them Ksh.10 million
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and his spouse, Pastor Dorcas Rigathi on Wednesday gifted Sh10.2 million to Kenya's Special Olympic team for their commendable...
Happy Father’s: Celebrating Fathers With Disabilities
BY ESTHER MUTURIFather’s Day is a holiday honoring one’s father, or relevant father figure, as well as fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers...
KNWD Fault Gov't For Neglecting PWDs' Sexual Reproductive Health And Rights
The Kenya Network of Women with Disabilities (KNWD) has expressed concerns over the government's negligence of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights for women a...
KNWD Wants Gov't To Focus On Employment Of PWDs
The Kenya Network of Women with Disabilities (KNWD) has called out the government for reneging on constitutional provisions for persons with disabilities.In a p...
Black Albinism- Climate Change Advocacy
Climate change has a devastating impact on persons with albinism - with a lack of pigmentation in their skin, hair, and eyes, they are susceptible to sunlight h...
International Albinism Awareness Day 2023
BY ESTHER MUTURIInternational Albinism Awareness Day is observed annually on the 13th of June to create awareness of Albinism and promote the rights and regulat...
World Albinism Day "Inclusion is Strength"
Albinism is an inherited disability characterized by a substantially lower rate of melanin production. Melanin is the pigment responsible for the color of the s...
Igembe South PWDs Asked To Register With NCPWD
BY KAMANJA MAERIAPersons with disabilities (PWDs) in Igembe South have been asked to register with the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) to...
UK Special Schools To Partner With Counterparts In Nakuru County
BY KNA's Veronica BosiboriA team from the United Kingdom (UK) is touring Nakuru County schools of People with Disabilities (PWDs) intending to partner with the...
Food Sensory Experience-Dining In The Dark
The Kenya Society for the Blind over the weekend treated its partners from the government and private sectors to a three-course mouth-watering meal served by wa...
Flone Initiative-Transport Safety For PWDs
Transport safety in various sectors of transport is a basic demand for all users, however, users with disabilities are not always taken into account which hinde...
Naivasha Resource Centre Offers Hope To PWDs' Creative Works
BY KNA's Erastus Gichohi A Naivasha-based Disability Resource Centre (DRIC) has created hope for tens of persons with various forms of disabilities for over a d...
cbm Launch OPDs LEAD Project
Christian Blind Mission(cbm) global disability inclusion on Thursday launched a project aimed at strengthening the capacity of small-sized Organizations for per...