Thank you anthony. Your sentiments are good. These are the ones we should go by in the 21st century. Fighting single handed is not the way to go. It is a challedge to all disability to heed to your advice. -----Original message----- From: Antony Mwakha Juma Sent: 19/04/2014, 10:28 pm To: sopvid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sopvid] Re: Jane Ocharo's Presentation on Disability Mainstreaming Oh pole sana. But sincerely speaking the persons concerned and the Nairobi university administration at large should be taken to task on this issue. Infect, it is a violation of the constitution which strictly opposes discrimination of persons with disabilities. How I wish this issue could be presented before the court of law or the human right organization responsible on these issues. By all means this has to stop. So I would request you kindly to collect all data and present them before the KENYA NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUALITY COMMISSION which is charged with among other functions: 1. To promote the protection and observance of human rights in public and private institutions. 2. To monitor, investigate and report on the observance of human rights in all spheres of life in the republic, including observance by the national security organs. 3. To receive and investigate complaints about alleged abuses of human rights and take steps to secure appropriate redress where human rights have been violated . 4. On its own initiative or on the basis of complaints, to investigate or research a matter in respect of human rights and make recommendations to improve the functioning of state organs. 5. To act as the principal organ of the state in ensuring compliance with obligations under treaties and conventions relating to human rights. 6. To investigate any conduct in state affairs, or any act or omission in public administration in any sphere of government , that is alleged or suspected to be prejudicial or improper, or to result in any impropriety or prejudice. 7. To investigate complaints of abuse of power, unfair treatment, manifest injustice or unlawful, oppressive, unfair or unresponsive official conduct. How I wish SOPVID could take up such issue and follow them up. The days of fighting single handed are long gone and those who think we persons with disability are only to get favours and handouts should forget and go and burn in hell! We now have equal rights and opportunities like everyone else. Juma. -----Original Message----- From: sopvid-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sopvid-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of johnakwalu@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 10:51 AM To: sopvid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sopvid] Re: Jane Ocharo's Presentation on Disability Mainstreaming Am a part 2 distant education student of this university. Stop using your d isability to look for favours. I know you have a disability but you were ta ught how to live with it." since exams are not debrailed, guess what i go t hrough when doing passages in kiswahili and communication skills, and start istics [data.[ i however comend the personal efforts of the current assista nt dean of students. The lady really tries but never achieves much probably becaus she receives no backing.I have written letters to the offices of de an of students and of faculties concerning debrailling of exams, exclution of the instruction to answer questions with a drawing of laswel's model of comunication, provision of braille machine and writing papers. Nothing has happened so far. I broke my personal brailler at the day before the startis tics cat, went to repair it but due to traffic jam missed the exam. I asked the resident lecturer at uthiru girls on dec 2014 i was told this over the phone: "tion to I -----Original message--From: Reginald OdSent: 12/04/2014, 5:50 pm To: sopvid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sopvid] Re: Jane Ocharo's Presentation o n Disability Mainstreaming Hi Jane I have read John Akwalu's email, and indeed it is important that all institutions be made more aware of the need to facilitate the full inclusion of persons with disabilities. However, I am not sure that singling out specific institutions for censure in a presentation is the way to go, unless there is evidence that they are not making satisfactory progress on the issue of inclusion. For example, a number of First Year students at the University of Nairobi will tell you that despite the challenges they face, the office of the Dean of Students has taken some concrete actions towards making their time in the institution much more manageable. Of course I could be asked to declare my interest in the matter of the University of Nairobi! -- Reginald M.J. Oduor, Ph.D. Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Nairobi (http://profiles.uonbi.ac.ke/oduor_reginald) Editor-in-Chief, Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya (http://ajol.info/index.php/tp/index) Chairman, Society of Professionals with Visual Disabilities (SOPVID) Vice-Chairman, Kenya Society for the Blind P.O. Box 41693-00100 Nairobi, Kenya Email: rmjoduor@xxxxxxxxx OR rmjoduor@xxxxxxxxxxx Tel.: 254 20 2160951 Mob.: 254 722 625555 Skype: reginald.oduor On 4/11/14, johnakwalu@xxxxxxxxx <johnakwalu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear blind fellows, it is worth notting that school headteachers and > ooth er > teachers are unwilling to buy braille equipments and materials for > blind > teachers and pupils integrated in their schools. The university of > nairob i > being an example of post secondary institutions has naughtly refused > to > offer search facilities for blind stundents especially those studying > ove r > the holidays. Since this nott achieved ammicably, the institutions in > question should be forced to provide search facilities. Talk about > search > issues in the pressentations. Thank you very much. By john kubai akwalu. > Telephone no.0715430666. > -----Original message----- > From: Jane Ocharo > Sent: 11/04/2014, 8:47 am > To: sopvid > Subject: [sopvid] Colleagues this is agent > > > Dear colleagues, > > I have been invited to make a presentation at the Judicial Training > Institute JTI on Monday 14th April 2014 on VIEW FROM THE GROUND: > DISABILITY AT THE CUSTOMER CARE DESK so please send me your input. > > Looking forward to your agent reply. > > Kind regards > > Jane Ocharo > ** To leave the list, click on the following link:- > ** [mailto: > sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** following link:- > ** [mailto: > sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with the Subject:- faq > > > > ** To leave the list, click on the following link:- > ** [mailto: > sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ?subjectunsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** following link:- > ** [mailto: > sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ?subjectúq] > ** or send a message, to > ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with the Subject:- faq > > > ** To leave the list, click on the following link:- ** [mailto: sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** following link:- ** [mailto: sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ?subjectúq] ** or send a message, to ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the following link:- ** [mailto: sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ?subject=subscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** following link:- ** [mailto: sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ?subjectq] ** or send a message, to ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the following link:- ** [mailto: sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** following link:- ** [mailto: sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the following link:- ** [mailto: sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** following link:- ** [mailto: sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ?subject�q] ** or send a message, to ** sopvid-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq