Happy International Day of Persons with Disabilities #IDPD2022

Faith_EnableMe

On this day of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, I am happy to announce that EnableMe has won the Zero Project Awards. These Awards recognize innovative programs and initiatives that are advancing the rights of persons with disabilities globally.

It’s been under two years of action towards building an online community of persons with disabilities through our platform https://www.enableme.ke/en We have shared over 100 jobs for persons with disabilities via the platform, hosted 3 hybrid and 8 social media advocacy events, onboarded an Award winning mental health expert to provide psychosocial support on the platform (Amisa Rashid😊) and we just hit 100,000 unique visits.

The most beautiful part of our story is the lives of persons with disabilities in Kenya that we have changed. This award goes out to Zena Ochieng, a mother of one daughter with cerebral palsy in Siaya County who reached out to me on email to thank EnableMe for providing a platform that was dedicated to sharing information and providing community for a minority group that often feels left out. I also had no idea that hosting an online community of peer to peer support would result in opening up networking opportunities that would lead to one of our community members getting a decent job. Karen Muriuki joined our online community during an Autism Employability Event. 

Here’s to celebrating our *Transformative soulution for inclusive development* as is the theme of today’s #idpd2022 

Happy #IDPD2022….and congratulations to the team. It took a village🎊🎉

BKiwu

Its such a joy seeing how much the Platform has grown and getting recognition from it. To more successes of disability inclusion. Good job @Faith_EnableMe and team. Keep it up.

Emma_EnableMe

Thank you for your work and dedication to EnableMe and congratulations!