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[dramatic piano music] 

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[wheels rolling on dirt road]

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We are just reaching Kose's home. She's the one coming.

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Kose got disabled when she was five years.

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Kose is telling us that with her disabilities, the parents
 troubled until she reached S4 [secondary school],

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but after that, the parents could not afford to support her.

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Now, Kose has one child who is around six years old.

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But the father had another family.

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So Kose survived by going to an institution 
where she learned tailoring, catering, and handicraft.

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Now she's going to tell us how far she is, how she earns her living to support her child and support herself

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because this is where she's staying, and she's renting at - 15,000.

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This house we are seeing is where she rents at 15,000 shillings.

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So we want to see how does she manage 
her life when she's doing this kind of work.

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These materials cost 120,000.

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When she tears and prepares this material 
for sewing them, for making them.

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She gets around 60 of these.

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This craftwork, it's like a basket but 
they're used for catching fish.

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Being disabled is not inability. So she’s trying to earn 
a living because nobody will be giving her any coin.

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[music swells]

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The first two challenges that people with a disability face when it comes to accessing formal employment opportunities,

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one of them is attitude.

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To them here, I'm a person with a disability

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and you will notice there are people that my disability, my
 words or my information I'm sharing here is full of cerebral palsy.

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But when it comes to someone's attitude, 
attitude can't be measured.

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But that impression that a person sees in you without 
giving you the opportunity to expose and exercise your ability,

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that one is a bigger challenge when it comes 
to accessing formal employment opportunity,

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mainly to people with disabilities.

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The second challenge is communication and access to information.

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You may find that people just know the term disability, but 
under disability, you'll have different categories or forms of disability.

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Like mine is cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy mainly affects 
someone's speech and in the way of sharing information.

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But for me I'm lucky, I can share with you easily.

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But when someone is communicating, will you be able 
to give him or her time to communicate it to you?

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[people speaking]

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The third one is accessibility.

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And you will find that, mainly in the developing world, 
people set up buildings which are not accessible.

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This morning I was sharing with my colleagues in the morning 
that I went to the Internal Affairs Ministry, Mbale Office,

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but I wanted to go to the toilet. 
They organized this toilet with a lot of stairs.

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So when I told them, for me, I can't go into that place.

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Yes, the most important place all over the world, 
a toilet is one of the most important places.

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But a person with a wheelchair, you have all stairs 
meaning that he or she will not go to the toilet very well.

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[music swells]

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[children's voices shouting]

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When they upgraded to P4 [3rd grade] they begin 
training them in how to use Braille machines.

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But as I have said they are not enough.

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You find that at one time a child maybe they are without 
writing because he's waiting for another one to complete.

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[typing on Braille machine]

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We have enough teachers, but all the teachers are not on payroll.

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Yeah, we have only two who are on payroll.

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We have six teachers, but only two are paid by the government.

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We are trying to lobby the government,

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so that they can also put the other teachers on the payroll.

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[water splashing]

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[children talking]

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I'm a disability inclusion facilitator and 
my work is mainly to move out,

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to sensitize the public about the challenges that affect people with disabilities

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when it comes to accessing employment opportunities.

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One of them is low self-esteem and confidence among them.

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The impression only can make this person to develop low self-esteem and confidence.

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[music swells]

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So Inclusion Works program, we always tell people 
that the world is moving from analog to inclusion,

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meaning that under inclusion is to 
say that people with disabilities

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get formal employment opportunities 
in line with their different professions.

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For me, I'm a social worker by profession.

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But if I come to your place of work and I'm a social worker, 
you need social work, don't judge me physically,

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but let us sit down, we get to know what can 
favor me to do my work properly like other people.

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[music swells]

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That project helped me to get a job,

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because if it wasn't for that project, how would we get to a job?

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Because I learned so many things, 
how to be confident when being interviewed.

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In that project, I got so many skills and 
that was how I got that job I'm doing.

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Thank you so, so much for that project. 
I got a lot of skills from that project.

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[bags rustling]

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Some people say when a grown-up woman, 
you better go and marry.

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Parents are getting money from their children who have disabilities, the girls,

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so they are like prisoners in their own home, without good care.

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So I'll continue working patiently as I look for a way 
out to solve my challenges and my problems.

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Because the children around, they need skills from us teachers.

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Now, if I stop teaching, then and then I drop the job,

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how about the children? They'll lose so many things.

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[music swells]

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[music fades]