Twende Kazi: Transforming Kenya for Children with Disabilities Campaign

The campaign was launched on the International Day for Persons with Disabilities 2012, which was held under the theme "Removing barriers to Create an Inclusive and Accessible Society for All." The Twende Kazi campaign is an invitation from CBM, which signifies its commitment to work with willing, committed like-minded partners to find solutions towards a barrier free and more inclusive society for children with disabilities. The Challenge is 'let’s get to work transforming Kenya for children with disabilities'. The mission is to transform Kenya for children with disabilities.

The campaign uses music to reach out to the community. The Twende Kazi Campaign theme song was composed and produced by Robert Kamanzi, popularly known as RKay, and a video performed by a number of leading Kenyan musicians affected by or passionate about disability issues.

Disabilities, Children, Rights

In 2009, CBM supported 390 programmes in Asia, 314 programmes in Africa, 143 programmes in Latin America, 17 programmes in Europe and 19 interregional programmes worldwide. Between 2009 and 2011, CBM will address its focus in overseas work to approximately 70 countries. Over time, CBM’s policy has widened from serving blind people to giving all persons with disabilities access to basic healthcare services. There are 600 million persons with disabilities in the world. Most of them live in developing countries. According to CBM, about 2.5% of these people, a target population of 10 million, are covered by CBM's programmes.