Roles and Activities


KSMH is committed to achieving its goals by pursuing the following actions:

  • Promote early identification of persons living with mental disabilities including those hidden and/or abandoned in families, communities etc.
  • Engage a multidisciplinary team of specialists in assessment and intervention services specially needed by persons with mental disabilities and their families.
  • Rescue and provide basic rights interventions to the rejected, abused, abandoned, neglected, caged, chained and isolated persons with mental disabilities.
  • Provide support services for affected mothers and families in promoting acceptance, understanding and quality management of individual special needs of their persons with mental disabilities.
  • Provide supported access to human rights and social justice by persons with mental disabilities in exercising of their individual legal capacities.
  • Articulate for the legal recognition of supported decision making and consent exercised by persons with mental disabilities to protect their interests, reduce social injustices and human rights violations.
  • Advocate for inclusive legal and institutional policy frameworks, which are persons with mental disabilities special needs sensitive.
  • Income Generating Initiatives in support of mothers and caregivers of persons with mental disabilities.
  • Mainstreaming the special needs of persons with mental disabilities in development and in particular government programs in areas of social, health, education, rehabilitation, training, HIV/AIDS etc
 

Contacts

Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped Kabete Orthopedic Workshops, Waiyaki Way

P O Box 48751 Nairobi 00100 Kenya

Phone
:+254 (20) 4450853/4,

Mobile: +254 729 476 101 /+254 736 476 101

Email: infor@ksmh.org

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Please come visit us at KSMH offices along Waiyaki Way, Westlands Nairobi Kenya.

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MPESA: pay bill option - 60030,
ZAP: KSMH
KCB a/c : 1106756061 Sarit Centre
Chase Bank
a/c: 5700466002 Parkland . For every $10 that you donate $9 will go directly in improving the lives of Persons with mental disabilities in Kenya. Go on, Make a Difference!

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