How I Became A person With A disability♿️ 📌I was born like any other normal child but at the age of 2 years when i was taken for immunization the doctor used an expired vaccine and he injected it into me. 📌I started feeling pain and i couldn’t walk my left leg became stagnant with growth as my right leg was growing normally, we went to Mulago Hospital for 6months plus as the doctors were trying to balance the two legs 🦵 📌But it was all in vein, we went back home but i had started crawling that’s when my daddy introduced me to using a stick to walk because i had to go school. 📌I went to Nursery,Primary,Secondary,Institute and University on my stick my daddy introduced me too till now. 📌After university Covid-19 came and since the mode of the day was about hygiene that is when i learnt how to make Liquid Soap along the way i got some challenges and thought about looking for a job in IT because that is the cause i did at campus(digital marketing) Mr @deejahn was/is mentoring in digital. 📌I applied somewhere and everything went on well but when the Human Resource got to know she was going to employ a person with a disability everything ended there, I was disappointed and asked myself why did i go to school even, 📌By then madam @fsnakazibwe was my customer i shared with her and she advised me to better stick to my business and glow it because the employment world think persons with disabilities can’t execute to the level of their companies. 📌From my conversation with her i started thinking about my fellow youth with disabilities who need helpers full time if they can’t employ me who can juggle around with out a help,for-example (those with visual impairment,hearing and some who use wheelchairs) 📌That is when i started thinking about young boys and girls with disabilities who are at the university who think that after campus we will get jobs if the employment space still has this negative attitude towards persons with disabilities. 📌I started sharing my empowerment skills with my fellow persons with disabilities and the community that believes in us and am proud that now am the Executive Director of a youth and disability led organization known as @TwezuuleF #DisabilityPrideMonth #Twezuule

As long as the dice is still rolling your six will surely come through

After the storm, what next? As we sat down with students with disabilities at Kyambogo University to talk about climate change and disability. We spoke about the floods, the drought, the lost homes and lost income. We also spoke about what these things do to the mind: stress, anxiety and depression. For young people with disabilities, the weight is even heavier, because access, support and opportunities were already hard to find. But we did not stop at talking. In the aftermath, I trained young people with disabilities to make liquid soap. Simple. Practical. Real. Because a skill gives a young person something climate change cannot easily take away. It brings income. It brings dignity. It brings hope, and a reason to wake up and say, "I can still build something." Climate change is not only about weather. It is about people, and how we help them stand up again. So let us ask ourselves:
✅ Are our climate plans including persons with disabilities?
✅ Are we giving young people skills, not just sympathy?
✅ Are we caring for mental health after disaster strikes? #InclusiveClimateSharing #TwezuuleFoundation #ZenGuardiansCafe

May it be a productive day

Even free work will never be for free Good Morning