Families are having to review household budgets and do away with luxuries and stay with the basics. Photo/Elvis Ogina.
By Magdalene Wanja
At least 300 people with physical disabilities
across the country will receive mobility aids and undergo rehabilitation
to help them lead normal lives, say leaders of a campaign dubbed Niko
Fiti.
Kenya Reinsurance Corporation
managing director Jadiah Mwarania said the campaign’s main aim was to
ensure that physically challenged people undergo community, social and
physical rehabilitation.
“This will help them to overcome their physical limitations besides empowering them economically and socially to become self-reliant and fully integrated members of their community” Mr Mwarania added.
He said this when he and other Kenya Re employees joined Niko Fiti campaign team at the Nakuru General Hospital where they donated wheelchairs, among other assistive devices for the physically handicapped.\
An accident victim Simon Kibe, 29, received a wheelchair through the initiative.
“Kenya Re in partnership with other stakeholders
will continue to conduct extensive public outreach on road safety as the
rise in motor accidents is leaving many Kenyans maimed and
incapacitated,” he added.
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