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Kenya news Council Rolls Out Nation-Wide Cancer Screening for Persons with Albinism – Kenya News Agency
The National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) has rolled out a free nation-wide cancer screening program for persons with albinism. Through the program, which runs concurrently with the mapping for cases of albinism in the country, NCPWD targets to build accurate data on the number of people living with the condition with a view…
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Kenya news Kiambu County Assessment of Persons with Disabilities Begins – Kenya News Agency
The assessment of persons with disabilities in Kiambu County has commenced at Kiambu Town Community Hall and will conclude in the next two weeks. This exercise is being conducted jointly by the National Council for Persons with Disabilities and the Kiambu County Government and aims to register all people living with disabilities in the…
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Kenya news Government rolls out program to map out persons living with ASD and RDD – Kenya News Agency
The Government is conducting a nationwide mapping programme for persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Related Developmental Disabilities (RDD). A person is said to have ASD or RDD if he exhibits either Cerebral Palsy (CP), epilepsy, learning disability, Down syndrome, spina bifida or hydrocephalus. The two-week programme that kicked off last week aims to…
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Kenya news Persons with Disabilities ask for special Public Service Vehicles – Kenya News Agency
Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) have asked the government to consider providing for them Special Vehicles or design Public Service Vehicles (PSVs) they can comfortably use whenever they want to commute. Speaking during a public Participation forum on the Proposed Persons with Disabilities National Policy 2024, Josphat Musagama, a resident of Vihiga County said most Vehicles…
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Kenya news State conducts Account Opening for Older Persons in Kiambu – Kenya News Agency
Older persons in Kiambu County are set to benefit from Inua Jamii funds from June 2024 as the government begins opening bank accounts for those registered last year. The exercises which started in Kiambu Sub County will be taking place in all the sub counties for five days. The funding targets legible senior citizen aged…
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Kenya news Government to have single data registry for vulnerable persons – Kenya News Agency
Government is in the process of collecting data on poor and vulnerable persons in the society to establish an enhanced single data registry. According to Loitoktok Sub County Children Officer, Dennis Njoroge the programme dubbed Enhanced Single Registry (ESR) aims at collecting all information concerning the poor, elderly as well as the orphans and those…
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News DC police officer shot driving to work; 2 persons of interest detained in Maryland
A police officer in Washington, D.C., was shot while driving to work on Monday, and two persons of interest were detained in Prince George’s County, Maryland, authorities said. The officer was shot near 7th Street and Oglethorpe Street NW and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department said. The site of the shooting was near…
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Kenya news Embu library equips visually impaired persons with digital skills – Kenya News Agency
Kenya National Library Services (KNLS) Embu Branch has partnered with the visually impaired community in the County to equip them with digitals skills geared towards self-reliance. The Library has been giving them free basic computer skills and use of smart gadgets such as phones to enable them easily get government services from the comfort of…
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