Support 100 disabled youth with Assistive devices.

Summary

This project will rehabilitate 100 disabled youth from underprivileged families through the provision of mobility aids and assistive devices such as wheelchairs,elbow crutches,white canes and braille progress report read updates from the field

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	£23 - Will buy a pair of aluminiun elbow crutches that can be used for a couple of years
	£46 - Will buy a white cane for a blind person to used in a lifetime
	£50 - Will be a contribution towards the purchase of a hearing aid for a deaf person
	£62 - Will be a contribution towards the purchase of a braille machine for a blind person
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Majority of persons with disabilities are born from poor families with challenges of meeting their own basic needs,it is difficult for them to take care of their disabled child given their economic challenges.By providing the disabled youth with the assistive devices like elbow crutches,wheelchairs,white cane and braille machine,it will make it easier for them to go to school on their own and lead a normal life and contribute to the development of the country because disability is not inability.

Activities

Collection,purchasing of the various mobility aids and assistive devices and identifying needy disabled youth who cannot afford to access them and train the beneficiaries on their usage before donating the devices to them.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £3,368
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £6,333
Total Funding Goal: £9,701

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Through the provision of mobility aids and assistive devices to disabled youth,they will have an opportunity of living an independent life and advance through education. By acquiring education,poverty eradication will be easier

Project Message

" I had lost hope in life due to inability to walk by myself given my disability,the two elbow crutches received from ANDY have just re-ignited in me the power to live.I can now go anywhere!"
- Ms.Elizabeth, A beneficiary who received a mobility aid

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Fredrick Ouko,
Founder
P.O.Box 5837
Nairobi, 00200
Kenya
+254-020-2324589
Email:

Project Sponsor

Fredrick Ouko

Organisation

Action Network for the Disabled
P.O.Box 5837-00200
16th Floor,Hazina Towers
Nairobi, NAIROBI 00200
Kenya
+254-020-2324589
http://www.andy.or.ke

Learn more about Action Network for the Disabled and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 02, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 19, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

Thank You

By Fredrick Ouko - Executive Director, January 02, 2012 12:37 PM

Dear Friends,

It has indeed been a good year at ANDY that finally wraps up, a lot of good things did happen and that means our impact in communities that we work in has been increasing day by day.

Different projects were implemented to help change the lives of youth with disabilities in Kenya, this is a success that we cannot take alone; all of you have been there in furthering this objective and we want to THANK YOU for the great contribution is has been.

As a young and growing organization, we wish to share with you in this journey as we get into the New Year to even do greater things that shall bring meaning to the lives of thousands of youth with disabilities in Kenya.

We request that you continue your partnership with us through supporting our various projects and encourage your friends, colleagues and family to consider joining hands with us to make a difference in the lives of those who are in need of our support to make it in life.

In this year alone, we were able to reach over 300 youth with disabilities and we know that with your support, we are able to surplus this number in 2012.

We take this opportunity to wish a prosperous New Year and look forward to working together to Make it Happen and Make a Difference!

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