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 top-performing student and the migraines, written off as exam fatigue, affected her...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 Gold Sponsor Google, and Accessibility Sponsors Meta and Microsoft. “It takes the...
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...
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...
The French Embassy in Kenya Hosts Inclusive Policy Youth Leadership...
Ambassador Aline Kuster Menager stands with inABLE Advocacy Officer Julius Mbura in front of the French Embassy in Kenya. I was one of 32 youth invited to the French...