Disabilities

The World Health Organization conservatively estimates that 10% of the Kenyan population has a disability of some sort. A thorough research study is still needed to determine the exact numbers of those with disabilities and what the causes are. Based on very rough data it appears that the higher numbers of people with disabilities in developing countries are related to lack of adequate health care, diseases such as malaria and meningitis, malnutrition and other issues related to poverty. Disabled people in the developing world are sometimes viewed as having received a curse from God, or as subhuman. Therefore people with disabilities are often neglected, abandoned, abused, raped or even killed.