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8 Nov 2022

Creating Tomorrow’s Business Leaders Project

Visually Impaired Youth Complete U.S. Embassy Nairobi Sponsored Business Skills Development Program A photo of the first cohort of Creating Tomorrow's Business Leaders project graduates holding completion certificates. Christopher Machin, Cultural Affairs officer, U.S. Embassy in Kenya and Julius Mbura, Advocacy...

October 27, 2022

Meet Valerie: On learning to live with a visual impairment

Valerie Olesia Busaka was not born with a visual impairment. It all started with a series of migraines in her third year of high school. Then, she was a...

September 27, 2022

Seizure App Wins inABLE’s Prized Digital Accessibility & Assistive Innovations...

Bright Bwayla, Winner, Digital Accessibility & Assistive Innovations Award 2022 (Center) receiving his trophy from Irene Mbari-Kirika, Founder and Executive Director, inABLE (Left), and Christopher Patnoe, EMEA lead for...

September 21, 2022

Meet Joash: The Blind Ex-Banker turned Teacher Rising Above his...

Joash Ododa, a teacher at St. Oda Primary School for the Blind is teaching a class while reading through his braille book. At St. Oda School for the Blind,...

July 27, 2022

Call me Engineer Victor!

Grade 5 Student Victor Kiplangat is a problem solver. Even though he is totally blind, his curiosity spurs him on to fix a broken headset. Victor Kiplang’at, one of...

July 12, 2022

Meet Six-Year-Old Said Ali: Building his Computer Literacy Skills Early

Said Ali and his friend Ernest Marata learning keyboard during computer lesson. Said Ali was born blind. He started showing interest in attending computer classes at an early age....

June 20, 2022

inABLE Coders Showcase their Skills

Photo caption: From left, Shadrack Otieno, Christine Atieno, Anthony Wambua, Charity Samba, Amina Samuel and James Kosgey. All seating in front of their laptops Showcasing their coding skills to...

13 Jun 2022

Meet Blessing Amina: Rising above the albinism stigma

inABLE program graduate and computer instructor intern traveled to her home county in Kilifi County to attend International Albinism Awareness Day celebrations at Karisa Maitha Stadium. Twenty-three-year-old Blessing Amina Samuel noticed she was different from others when she was a child...

May 18, 2022

2022 Inclusive Africa Conference Secures Sponsorship Support

Nairobi – Global powerhouses have paved the way for the first in-person Inclusive Africa Conference in Kenya. The Mastercard Foundation has taken the lead Platinum Sponsor position, followed by...

May 18, 2022

Meet 2022 Keynote Speaker Award-winning Lawyer Haben Girma

Helen Keller Achievement Award Winner Haben Girma—the first deaf blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School— Delivered Keynote Address at the 2022 Inclusive Africa Conference.   Nairobi – Haben...

May 11, 2022

Leading Accessibility Champions to Speak at 3rd Annual Inclusive Africa...

Nairobi – The Inclusive Africa Conferences— which opened at the Trademark Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya on May 25- 26—began with the historic launch of the first-ever National ICT Accessibility...

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