By Wanjira E Wachira
Worth Noting:
- Cerebral palsy is a congenital disorder of movement, muscle tone or posture. It is due to abnormal brain development, often before birth. Persons living with this disability use wheelchairs for movements. Wheelchairs can also be used by people with other disabilities and even some accident victims.
- Governor Francis Kimemia and the first lady Anne Kimemia have been in the front line to support persons with disabilities and were recorded issuing wheelchairs at JM hospital early last year. The county government in association with Living with hope organization donated more than 15 wheelchairs.
His disability is having an abnormal joy.
Every morning, you will meet him preparing to leave for work like any other normal person. He is a good cook and bakes cakes. Some of the scented candles we enjoy using are his work. He is generous and never wants to see anyone suffering; he offers lift to his fellow who doesn’t have wheelchairs on his wheelchair. He is always attracting people with his constant joy.
Every day, he invites people to make choices in life, you can choose to mourn about what you don’t have or just chose to dance to life and be happy of the things you have. He is counted as a gift by his family, the L’arche Kenya. He delivers and outreach more than those with walking power.
“My name is Musa Kirokote and I have cerebral palsy. I was born in Kisumu and thrown out in a dustbin. Someone pulled me out of the trash and mothered me.
“I moved out of my mom’s house when I became big. Now I live in L’arche Kenya with my friends who I now call family,” narrates Musa, a man living with disability and uses a wheelchair. Musa living on a wheelchair faces challenges on his daily life.
Poor roads are a challenge, for it is difficult for him to use a wheelchair on them.
Public offices which are not favourable for people living with disabilities become not accessible by Musa.
Sometimes while traveling, he faces the challenges of using public means because not many people understand his condition.
Musa loves his wheelchair and parks it carefully, he always enjoys cleaning it also.
Musa is not married, Thus his only responsibility is taking care of himself and the little he has, including the wheelchair.
Musa’s condition is a condition that one is born with. It’s different from those who uses wheelchairs because of accidents.
Musa has no broken bones, this making his condition different.
Musa observes all traffic rules by wearing a helmet and reflectors while travelling on roads.
Cerebral palsy is a congenital disorder of movement, muscle tone or posture. It is due to abnormal brain development, often before birth. Persons living with this disability use wheelchairs for movements. Wheelchairs can also be used by people with other disabilities and even some accident victims.
Governor Francis Kimemia and the first lady Anne Kimemia have been in the front line to support persons with disabilities and were recorded issuing wheelchairs at JM hospital early last year. The county government in association with Living with hope organization donated more than 15 wheelchairs.
“We celebrate the great work of the many millions of people who provide wheelchairs, support and care for wheelchair users and make the world a better place for people with mobility issues. If you cannot feed a thousand people, feed just one, as much as there are so many people in need of wheelchairs, the little I give is from my heart with love,” said Kuria Thuo an MCA aspirant from Gathanje ward, Nyandarua county as he offered six wheelchairs to some person living with disability.
Governor Francis Kimemia and the first lady Anne Kimemia have been in the front line to support persons with disabilities and were recorded issuing wheelchairs at JM hospital early last year. The county government in association with Living with hope organization donated more than 15 wheelchairs.
This day is an annual day of events and activities which take place around the world when wheelchair users celebrate the positive impact a wheelchair has on their lives.