ADVOCACY
Ignorance, negative attitude and economic hardship in the society make it harder for children with disability and their families to thrive. This situation negates social and economic fundamental rights and amplifies exclusion from participation in decision-making processes to voice their concerns that affects their lives. We advocate for inclusion as a sole pillar of change from negative prospect of disability by observance of human rights as the cardinal principal that must be observed and enjoyed by everyone. Our Advocacy enhances awareness creation and psychosocial support to promote better understanding on disability matters in families and the community for better lives and livelihood.
REHABILITATION SERVICES
Therapy is the most needed service to the realization of children’s status of mobility by restoring their abilities of standing, walking and speech to enhance physical and sensory development. Quite a number of persons with disabilities and caregivers undergo through hardships in life, leading them to depression status. Psychosocial Support is the only professional approach applied to reverse the mental status to the affected members. These services will be deployed close to home states for quick access and incase recommend referrals for more professional care and corrective surgeries when need arises beyond the center management.
EDUCATION AND TALENT
Inclusive education is a child’s right which is anchored on Individuals with Disabilities Education Act clearly stating that all children with disabilities should be educated with non-disabled children at their own age and have access to the general education curriculum. On the same breath every child and family is valued equally and deserves the same experiences when it comes to education. Education to all is an equalizer that secures opportunities for learners with disabilities to learn new abilities from learners without disabilities by enhancing friendships and lessening social tension and increase self-esteem regardless of disability. We strong advocated for friendly designs and deployment of assistive technology to facilitate learns with disabilities maximize their potential in education and career path. It has been identified that people with disabilities have acquired unique talent that has not been exploited. Talent once identify and nurtured will be a great a natural wealth for income generation to better livelihood of children with disabilities and their families in future. We strongly belief that partnerships with ongoing advocacy, planning, support and commitment will achieve great milestones for our learns with disabilities in the country.
CAPACITY BUILDING
Bringing up a child with disability as a single mother or a person with disability residing in a low–income setting (slum) comes with inadequate resources, limited psycho-social support and poverty, which enhances fatigue, distress and isolation. Capacity building persons with disabilities and caregivers will improve a wider scope of continuous and sustainable livelihood activities which includes (Self-employment| Self Help Group employment| Micro-entrepreneurship and | other forms of income generation programs (IGPs). Capacity Building will promote equity, opportunities, self-reliance and household resilience for sustainable income generation activities to meet the basic needs of children with disabilities.
PARTNERSHIPS
Partnership in Advocacy & Communication (Dubbed -DuNo )
DuNo is an Advocacy ideology that focuses on conventional rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and sustainable development goals(SDG’s).The DuNo underscores the following facets;
Understanding Disability & Its conditions|:-Our community has not impressed persons with disabilities due to lack of knowledge and understanding that have greatly influenced discrimination and isolation of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs.)
Data and Resource Distribution|:- Data is an integral component of decision making to determine resource distribution for service delivery to citizens. Persons with disabilities lack essential services due to inconsistency data that seems conflicting accuracy of the true numbers registered in Kenya.
Disability rights and constitutionalism|:-Our constitution enshrines lots of gains towards persons with disabilities, which are also amplified in conventional rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) with well documented guidelines that champion for persons with disabilities inclusion and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Observance of human rights and public participation are basic fundamental principles that must be observed and enjoyed by everyone to promote inclusivity agenda.
Education on sexual gender based violence (SGBV) towards persons with disabilities in reporting channels and HIV/AIDS Counseling |: Persons with disabilities have fallen victims of SGBV by being taken advantage of their weak point of their disability. Women and girls with disabilities experience unique forms of violence, including when perpetrators withhold medications or assistive devices or decline to assist with tasks of daily living. Many persons with disabilities may also lack access to sexuality aids education, which might otherwise help them to identify and prevent abuse, and face increased barriers to access justice and report violence, leading to impunity for perpetrators. Women with disabilities are more likely to experience poverty and isolation due to economic violence and financial barriers that affect them accessing financial services.
We call upon your Partnership with us to make our county better through “DuNo” concept to enhance awareness creation and psychosocial support to promote better understanding on disability matters in families and the community for better lives and livelihood.
Partnership in Therapy and rehabilitation Services
As per our findings, therapy is a serious challenge to children with disabilities that needs it on a regular basis in terms of affordability, accessibility and substantiality. Distance from therapy centers, transportation from one point to the station with wheelchairs which is also paid for as a passenger, meaning if you have a big child you has to pay for three (3) seats including the wheelchair. It’s also strenuous and fatigue for parents carrying their old enough and heavy children form one point to another for therapy services on their back and pay therapy service subscriptions which proofs as not sustainable for unemployed caregivers. Victims of Gender based violence who are girls and women with disabilities and their families go through a lot of mental torture that need a specialist at a safe and conducive environment for interaction to overcome the horrific situation. A rescue center of GBV will provide a better environment for Psychosocial support from professionals Psychiatrists to addresses a person’s emotional, social, mental and spiritual needs. This will create all essential elements of positive human development of acceptance and offers life skills trainings for economic empowerment.
We call upon your partnership in;
1: (a) Construction and equipping of a community rehabilitation center for therapy services at Makadara on a donated land by Nairobi City County to ease therapy services challenges and; (b) Construction and equipping of a rescue center for women with disability survivors of gender based violence.
(2) Therapy subscription sponsorship, we call upon your partnership to sponsoring children with disabilities to access therapy services which is very expensive for parents to manage and sustain as per the required standards for better physical development.
Partnership in Daily Upkeep
A diaper and anticonvulsant medicine is a life changer and dignity to persons with disability social welfare. Due to unaffordability of diapers, persons with disabilities end up on ragged clothes and nylon garment to sustain their control of nature which adversely causes them harmful infections. Anticonvulsant medicines are very expensive to purchase and limited in market for persons with disability consumption to see the next day. It’s unfortunate we have lost a number of children from severe convulsions caused by lack of anticonvulsant medicines due to its affordability and availability.
Your partnership to support us through donation of diapers and sponsorship for anticonvulsant medicine prescriptions will salvage lives of persons with disabilities to live a dignified and long life in society.
A diaper and anticonvulsant medicine is a life changer and dignity to persons with disability social welfare. Due to unaffordability of diapers, persons with disabilities end up on ragged clothes and nylon garment to sustain their control of nature which adversely causes them harmful infections. Anticonvulsant medicines are very expensive to purchase and limited in market for persons with disability consumption to see the next day. It’s unfortunate we have lost a number of children from severe convulsions caused by lack of anticonvulsant medicines due to its affordability and availability.
Your partnership to support us through donation of diapers and sponsorship for anticonvulsant medicine prescriptions will salvage lives of persons with disabilities to live a dignified and long life in society.
Partnership in Capacity Building
Bringing up a child with disability as a single mother in a low income setting (slum) comes with inadequate resources, limited psycho-social support and poverty, which enhances caregivers fatigue, distress and isolation. Capacity-building is the best practice approach of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts and abilities to solve daily challenges faced by caregivers to meet their children with disabilities daily expenses of acquiring diapers, anticonvulsant medicines, special diet and therapy sessions.
- The main essence of capacity-building is live transformation that is generated and sustained over time from within, transformation of this kind goes beyond performing tasks to changing mindsets and attitudes and more importantly transformation of lives and livelihood in the community for sustainable family. Inua Mama’s Kitty main goal is to achieve life and livelihood transformation in the community our members with developmental disabilities. This will only be realized through socioeconomic empowerment capacity building program to determine the future of our targeted groups in terms of income, education, employment, community safety, and social support.
- Our Capacity building program identifies great opportunities in catering and pastry industry, chicken farming industry, fashion design industry and in salon and beauty industry as a potential area of our interest with huge market opportunity for business and employment for members. This approach will also promote equity, opportunities, self-reliance and household resilience for sustainable income generation activities to meet the basic needs of children with disabilities.
- Our scope of capacity building partnership is categorized in three formations for proper sponsorship or support aligned to a specified task; 1) Capacity building training sponsorship for 300 persons with disabilities and 300 caregivers, 2) Sponsorship for tools of trade to 300 persons with disabilities and caregivers already trained and 3) Startup Capital sponsorship for Catering Services Kitchen aimed to employ more than 500 persons with disabilities and caregivers.
Partnership in Education & Talent Development
The results are always notable for a few Persons with disabilities who got an opportunity to go to school and more so integrated schools and are on high ranked jobs. The assessment of their background it’s of peasants of rich men. But through hardship, perseverance and positive deal turned round the community. Learners with disabilities only require conducive environment and education facilitative support. We call upon well-wishers for Sponsorships and scholarships for learners with disabilities for it will a great opportunity to build the foundation in turn around their lives and of their families in the near future. Sight of Relief Organization intends to launch a Unique Talent Show (UTS) focusing on learners with disabilities. This will give a platform to showcase inbuilt talents and various abilities that can be a voice of advocacy and livelihood to many. UTS will be rolled out country wide to identifying MR. and Mrs. UTS County to advocated for County disability talent and then proceed to National for MR. and Mrs. UTS Kenya to represent the Country in unique talent advocacy. To achieve this program we need grand support to conduct the exercise from all the counties to instill Mr. & Mrs. UTS County and progress to nationals to get the two overall Mr. & Mrs. National UTS. We look forward to partners who can support talent development to empower persons with disabilities in to do advocacy in the community with a voice of reason contrary to negative perceptions of valueless beings in society.