“My advice to my community is that they should stop hiding or mistreating their children with disabilities. They should allow them to freely interact with their peers and the wider community so that they can have a sense of belonging.”
Community Development - Case Study
Teresiah has been caring for her son with a psychosocial disability for over 20 years. In that period, she has undergone exclusion and rejection from her family owing to myths and misconceptions about psychosocial disabilities that have long been held by her community. Teresiah has however benefitted from a mental health outreach clinic that enabled her to learn how to better care for her son as well as access medication. She is also a member of a group of people with disabilities from Kajiado County, Kenya and their caregivers who have been trained on financial literacy and business skills and have received seed grants to enable them to start sustainable income-generating ventures.