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Maren Atieno, a sorghum farmer stands outside her home. She is smiling.
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Maren's story

Maren is a farmer from Homa Bay County, Kenya. Through farming and supplying sorghum to brew Senator keg beer, she has been able to send her two children to school and has challenged her community's perceptions of what women with disabilities can achieve.

October 2022
A woman farmer is photographed on her land holding farming tools and seeds.
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Measuring the impact of our work with farmers in Kenya

A survey carried out at the start of the Global Labor Program will help us to measure whether our approach results in more men and women with disabilities being confident about exercising their labour rights.

October 2022
A group of women taking part in a focus group discussion led by Ulula smile at the camera.
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Using accessible technology to improve labour force inclusion in Kenya

Global tech company Ulula is creating a digital platform that will share labour rights information with workers in the supply chains of large-scale businesses in Kenya.

October 2022
Maren Atieno, a sorghum farmer, attends to a cow on her farm
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Gender equality and disability inclusion: what we've learned so far

Inclusive Futures partner KEFEADO looks at how issues around gender and disability limit the participation of women with disabilities in the value chains of two large beverage companies in Kenya.

October 2022
A group of people standing together during a cocreation workshop in Kaduna, Nigeria
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Improving access to family planning for people with disabilities

Launched in January 2022, this initiative in northern Nigeria aims to improve access to good quality family planning information and services for people with disabilities.

September 2022
An eye doctor is pointing to a list of letters as a man in a wheelchair reads them out as part of an eye test.
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What does behaviour change have to do with inclusion?

Inclusive Futures projects in Bangladesh and Nigeria are trialling different ways to tackle stigma and discrimination faced by people with disabilities.

August 2022
A group of young people with different disabilities are smiling at the camera and at each other and laughing
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Covering disability in the media: why language matters

Liz Ombati, a disability rights advocate based in Kenya, explains why it’s time for the media to do more to accurately reflect the lived experience of people with disabilities.

June 2022
A man wearing a shirt stands and smiles, looking at a piece of paper on a table. Sat at the table are three women who are smiling.
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“This programme is nation-building”

An Inclusive Futures disability-inclusive employment pilot programme in Nigeria, Kenya, Bangladesh and Uganda has recently come to an end. Simon Brown, Sightsavers’ global technical lead on economic empowerment, looks at what we've learned.

June 2022
A journalist sits in a radio studio holding a script and talking into a microphone.
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Five steps to shifting journalists’ – and the public's – attitudes to disability

Inclusive Futures partner BBC Media Action trained 150 journalists in Bangladesh to improve how people with disabilities are portrayed in the media. Here's their checklist to help change attitudes towards disability.

June 2022
Five men and women sit around a long table in a meeting room, engaging in a discussion.
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Five cost-free ways to make your workplace disability-inclusive

Inclusion International shares tips from its latest toolkit on supporting people with intellectual disabilities at work. Many of the tips are free and can be implemented without the expense of outside expertise.

June 2022
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