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5 Aug 2020

InABLE Team Trained to Create Accessible Digital Books

Where would you keep a valuable book or document if you had one? You are certain that you want to conserve it in the best way possible to ensure that it will last for many generations. A safe box or a...

July 21, 2020

Inclusive Education Leads to Future Opportunities

Did you know that people with disabilities (PWDs) experience higher rates of multidimensional poverty, which includes poorer health, lower levels of employment and earnings, and higher poverty rates? These...

April 24, 2020

Digital Accessibility in Africa: Why it matters now more than...

Banner As the global COVID19 pandemic continues, the global population's lives have been dramatically altered, highlighting how much we rely on digital systems and products for essential services in...

March 2, 2020

Advancing Digital-Accessibility Knowledge & Understanding in Africa

Delvin Obara, a 20-year old low vision high school graduate, advances her coding skills in the new inABLE internship program. inABLE is committed to expanding our computer labs for...

February 11, 2020

Inclusive Africa Conference: The Inside Story

The Inclusive Africa Conference 2020, which was supposed to take place in Nairobi, Kenya from March 29 to April 1, has been rescheduled for November 9-10. [Note: Because of...

December 20, 2019

Meet Collins: A step closer to achieving his goals

inABLE.org computer lab alumna & peer mentor Collins Maikuva Shamala aces KCSE exam Collins Maikuva Shamala, who has low vision due to Albinism, was one of the fortunate special-needs...

December 11, 2019

MasterCard Foundation Visits inABLE Computer Lab at Thika Primary School...

From back left: Joe Kiarie, inABLE Board Member. Brenda Kiema, Lecturer, Tangaza University College. Kaylee Stewart, MasterCard Foundation. George Siso, Business Development Manager. Anthony Wambua, Blind inABLE intern and...

19 Sep 2019

World Bank Visits Thika Primary School for the Blind

We were honored to have World Bank Senior Social Development Specialist Kimberly Vilar and Social Development Specialist Annette Omolo join us at Thika Primary School for the Blind for our program. They came to see how students with visual impairments access...

July 11, 2011

Meet John Brown: Using computers to keep his mind sharp

John Brown is the seventh of nine siblings. His parents are farmers from Western Kenya. Brown was introduced to computers by his aunt in 2005, when he was 9...

July 2, 2011

Eagerly Awaited Kairi Library Opens its’ Doors

The bright red shipping container shown above is now the home of the Our Reading Spaces Program at Kenya's Thika Primary School for the Blind and Kairi Village. Individual...

February 21, 2011

A Dream Come True…

When the first library was being set up at Kairi Village, the entire community (young and old) came to witness. “I recall seeing the container being unloaded, dangling in...

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