Community Awareness

This is one of the most important areas of support since handicapped children have been, abandoned, abused and even killed because of the community’s lack of understanding. Just $25,000 a year funds the resource center, community events, people to educate the community and other needs that create awareness on the value of children with disabilities.

The resource center is a rented room that includes a library of special needs text books and other educational resources for teachers and parents to learn more about the disabilities that affect these children. It is very difficult to obtain these resources and when they are acquired they are usually outdated. Therefore most of the materials in the resource center are carried to the school from the US and Europe with visitors. If you would like to donate special needs learning materials please email Kupenda@kupenda.org.

One of the community events includes “Disabilities Awareness Day”. This is an event when children from all the different special needs units around the district share their talents. This includes dances, singing, poetry, drama and speeches on the value of people with disabilities. These events are attended by community members who often had no idea that children with disabilities could actually succeed in society. Therefore these events often result in more children being assisted because the word spreads quickly that these children can function if given the proper education and children who were previously hidden are brought to school.

Kupenda also sponsors pastor workshops so that area churches are also educated about the biblical mandate to care for children with disabilities in their communities. Thirty churches have been involved and have significantly changed the mindset of people towards disability.

Community awareness also includes funding the people who are doing the work of educating the community. This includes salaries and transportation for these individuals. Currently these funds support the Kupenda Kenya director, secretary, and the local church. These same people travel throughout the community to convince individual parents to allow their special needs children to attend school who are being kept at home.


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