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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENYA!!


Kenya at 50 is what is on almost every tongue in the country right now.
For us at MDSK it is definitely worth celebrating for a few reasons.
First, 50 years ago, the Kenya society did not have the time for people with special needs and looking at our country as it is now, we have come a good long way and a conversation about special needs is not frowned upon by everyone.
Secondly, how many schools for children with special needs had been set up? Today, there are special schools in at least every county in the country, well, even though the quality of the service offered might raise questions, we have come a long way.
Third, teacher training on special needs, Teacher training colleges might have been among the first institutions where Kenyans could get training even amidst the many untrained teachers during the colonial and immediate post-colonial period but they were not trained about handling students with special needs. Teachers in the country are now taught a bit about children and persons with special needs in the course of their training so they are not shocked if they encounter them in the field.
Acceptance.
The society has slowly accepted that there are people living with special needs, that they too can perform and achieve, that they do not have to be locked behind doors all their lives and that they can be as great in the professions they pursue as well as being part of the leadership in our work places and countries.
As Muscular Dystrophy Society Kenya, we salute ;-
# Every parent of a child with a special need, they that have made sure that their children get an education, get to accept their situations and go ahead to live their lives to the full.
# Every person who has gone out of their way to help a person with any special need go about their life, smile, enjoy life and know how it feels to have a friend.
# Every person who has taken their time to educate their neighbor, friend or public about persons living with special needs.
Most of all, special salutes to any person living with a special need who has made sure that they will not forget that they are fearfully and wonderfully made.

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