Connecting people with deafblindness to the world around them.

Description: Video taken from Sense International Kenya, and the speech is given by Julius Muga Ogayo, Founder and Director AT Advocacy Against Discrimination of Disabled Kenya (AADD-Kenya) and Sense International Kenya Board Member. The camera starts focused on Julius , who is a black man wearing a blue suit, with a white shirt and striped tie with a background that includes the Sense International banner and logo in an event space.

Throughout the speech, there are images from other Sense International country teams that come onto the screen over the voice of Julius’ speech before the the camera focuses back on Julius as the speech begins to conclude.

Julius:
Digital inclusion is no longer an option or is no longer optional. It is a necessity, a lifeline.

In today’s world, digital access is key to education, to employment, to healthcare service and to civic participation.

Without it, people are left behind.

For persons with deafblindness and multi sensory impairments, digital tools can mean the difference between silence and communication, between exclusion and participation, and between dependence and independence.

It transforms isolation into connection and silence into expressions and despair into hope.

People with deafblindness can learn, work and engage with their communities. They can access information, express themselves and contribute to society on equal terms. This is the power of digital inclusion and what Sense International is doing.

So this hub is not just a platform, it is a statement that inclusion is possible, that technology can bridge the device and that it and that the rights of persons with deafblindness must be realised.

Let us strengthen our collaborations so that voices of persons with deafblindness and other disabilities guide every solutions we create. Thank you.