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White Cane Safety Day

The 2019 White Cane Safety Day is marked today, 15th October worldwide.  By Japhet Kirimi & Alakie Ginn Hundreds of visually impaired Kenyans will celebrate White Cane Safety Day in a...

We Are Back!

We are excited to be back after a long silence since we started the Ability Project in 2018. As you will recall, last year, we worked with volunteers to map...

Volunteers’ Training Day

Ability has spent the last three weeks calling for volunteers. Finally, this Friday 26th April is set to be our volunteer Training Day, which will be a full day of...

Volunteer Training Day: Mission Accomplished

If you have been following up on us at Ability, by now you should be familiar with our project on advocating for more accessible buildings and streets for everyone, but...

University Mapping Challenge – Online Training

Ability is now moving on to the next phase of mapping, mapping University campuses.  We have spent the month of May mapping out over 500 buildings and streets and Nairobi...

Our Mapping Exercise has Begun.

Ability has made it through the eagerly awaited first week of our mapping exercise. We began mapping several areas in Nairobi city starting Monday the 29th of April. With our...

Impact of COVID-19 on Kenyans With Disabilities

On 16th April 2020, the Open Institute through the Ability Programme hosted an online Persons with Disabilities Brainstorm meeting to share and understand the key challenges relating to PWDs and...

Help Us Map Our City

Imagine for a moment, if our public and private spaces were made more accessible with ramps, level flooring where needed, safe stairwells with railings, decluttered corridors with enough floor space,...

Ability Program Featured on BBC Africa

We are so honoured to have the Ability programme gain so much interest through our YouTube channel videos, our website blogs and social media posts. in May, we landed on...

ABILITY: Our Accomplishments So Far

After a very successful volunteer training day on Friday 26 April at our offices The 36 people who showed interest to volunteer were taken through all aspects of the Ability...

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