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Making A Difference to the Lives of the People with Mental Disabilities
Mission: Actively Promoting identification, acceptance, inclusion and equal opportunities for persons with mental disabilities and their families in Kenya
The society is, in addition promoting the mainstreaming of specialized support services in the country’s development programs for PWID and their families in order to make their inclusion a reality.
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| Mental Disability is not Mental Illness! |
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It is generally defined as limitations in intellectual functioning and areas of adaptive skills. It covers all different aspects of mental disabilities such as Down Syndrome, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Dyslexia, severe cerebral palsy and epilepsy
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The Society: Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped is an agent for change, to perform and to carry out, for the care and welfare, interest, treatment, education and advancement of intellectually disabled persons and their families, the following actions in areas of priority affecting their lives:
- Identification, visibility and recognition of persons with mental disabilities in Kenya
- Acceptance by the mother, family and the community at large
- With respect to all special needs, supported access to basic care, treatment, rehabilitation, education and training
- Inclusion in all aspects of everyday family and community life
- Supported access to human rights and social justice with respect to individual decisions
- Family support through adequate services and support networks to families with an intellectually disabled member
- Inclusive legal and policy frameworks that are operational
Values: Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped (KSMH) is a society for Kenyans living with mental disabilities and their families that uphold the following values;
- Caring
- Kindness and Compassion
- Human rights and social justice
- Equality and Non-discrimination
- Inclusion
- Dedication
- Commitment
- Openness
Goals: KSMH GOALS provides a framework for mainstreaming the special needs of persons with mental disabilities and their families in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Kenya, by year 2015. The Goals on behalf of persons with mental disabilities and their families, provides time-bound and measurable development goals for combating poverty, hunger, disease and discrimination.
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| Voices of Persons with Mental Disabilities |
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We may have limitations in intellectual functioning and areas of adaptive skills, but we too
have rights which should be respected. We require your help to get even the most basic needs. We require care and special protection from abuse because of our mental disabilities. Look at us as human beings first before seeing our disability. Please end the stigma!
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| Voices of Parents of PWID |
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We love them very much; we wish they have got people to help us. We need for our children a place where they can learn basic skills so that they are less dependent on us. This will enable us to earn our daily wage for survival. We need for our adults life-long care and special protection. Who will take care of our adults when we die?
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| The first lady H.E. Mrs. Lucy Kibaki E.G.H. inaugurates the 1st ever day for persons with mental disabilities in Kenya. |
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A record number of more than 4,500 persons with mental disabilities and their parents attended the first ever Day for persons with mental disabilities, held at Uhuru park, Nairobi on the 24th February 2007. |
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