[dramatic piano music]
[wheels rolling on dirt road]
We are just reaching Kose's home. She's the one coming.
Kose got disabled when she was five years.
Kose is telling us that with her disabilities, the parents troubled until she reached S4 [secondary school],
but after that, the parents could not afford to support her.
Now, Kose has one child who is around six years old.
But the father had another family.
So Kose survived by going to an institution where she learned tailoring, catering, and handicraft.
Now she's going to tell us how far she is, how she earns her living to support her child and support herself
because this is where she's staying, and she's renting at - 15,000.
This house we are seeing is where she rents at 15,000 shillings.
So we want to see how does she manage her life when she's doing this kind of work.
These materials cost 120,000.
When she tears and prepares this material for sewing them, for making them.
She gets around 60 of these.
This craftwork, it's like a basket but they're used for catching fish.
Being disabled is not inability. So she’s trying to earn a living because nobody will be giving her any coin.
[music swells]
The first two challenges that people with a disability face when it comes to accessing formal employment opportunities,
one of them is attitude.
To them here, I'm a person with a disability
and you will notice there are people that my disability, my words or my information I'm sharing here is full of cerebral palsy.
But when it comes to someone's attitude, attitude can't be measured.
But that impression that a person sees in you without giving you the opportunity to expose and exercise your ability,
that one is a bigger challenge when it comes to accessing formal employment opportunity,
mainly to people with disabilities.
The second challenge is communication and access to information.
You may find that people just know the term disability, but under disability, you'll have different categories or forms of disability.
Like mine is cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy mainly affects someone's speech and in the way of sharing information.
But for me I'm lucky, I can share with you easily.
But when someone is communicating, will you be able to give him or her time to communicate it to you?
[people speaking]
The third one is accessibility.
And you will find that, mainly in the developing world, people set up buildings which are not accessible.
This morning I was sharing with my colleagues in the morning that I went to the Internal Affairs Ministry, Mbale Office,
but I wanted to go to the toilet. They organized this toilet with a lot of stairs.
So when I told them, for me, I can't go into that place.
Yes, the most important place all over the world, a toilet is one of the most important places.
But a person with a wheelchair, you have all stairs meaning that he or she will not go to the toilet very well.
[music swells]
[children's voices shouting]
When they upgraded to P4 [3rd grade] they begin training them in how to use Braille machines.
But as I have said they are not enough.
You find that at one time a child maybe they are without writing because he's waiting for another one to complete.
[typing on Braille machine]
We have enough teachers, but all the teachers are not on payroll.
Yeah, we have only two who are on payroll.
We have six teachers, but only two are paid by the government.
We are trying to lobby the government,
so that they can also put the other teachers on the payroll.
[water splashing]
[children talking]
I'm a disability inclusion facilitator and my work is mainly to move out,
to sensitize the public about the challenges that affect people with disabilities
when it comes to accessing employment opportunities.
One of them is low self-esteem and confidence among them.
The impression only can make this person to develop low self-esteem and confidence.
[music swells]
So Inclusion Works program, we always tell people that the world is moving from analog to inclusion,
meaning that under inclusion is to say that people with disabilities
get formal employment opportunities in line with their different professions.
For me, I'm a social worker by profession.
But if I come to your place of work and I'm a social worker, you need social work, don't judge me physically,
but let us sit down, we get to know what can favor me to do my work properly like other people.
[music swells]
That project helped me to get a job,
because if it wasn't for that project, how would we get to a job?
Because I learned so many things, how to be confident when being interviewed.
In that project, I got so many skills and that was how I got that job I'm doing.
Thank you so, so much for that project. I got a lot of skills from that project.
[bags rustling]
Some people say when a grown-up woman, you better go and marry.
Parents are getting money from their children who have disabilities, the girls,
so they are like prisoners in their own home, without good care.
So I'll continue working patiently as I look for a way out to solve my challenges and my problems.
Because the children around, they need skills from us teachers.
Now, if I stop teaching, then and then I drop the job,
how about the children? They'll lose so many things.
[music swells]
[music fades]