By Ruth Tenai | President
Access to vaccines is a big issue here in Kenya and the larger African continent. There continues to lack of enough information on the benefits of vaccines and the vaccination points available are scarce, hard to come by, and inaccessible to people living with disabilities.
There are also not enough trained people to handle the needs of people living with autism, some of them fear needles and are not amused by the whole vaccination approach. This is due to the differences in processing the information they get and how they perceive it. This challenge stems from the viewpoint of how autism is unique in everyone who has it.
This grant and fundraiser continue to help us to make communications that are meant at easing this access to vaccines and preparing kids and adults with autism to get vaccines. It also enables us to maintain a database of those who have received the vaccination and those who haven't.
With additional funds, we will be able to get more people living with autism to be vaccinated to get them the correct information on the various vaccines available and break the information to them into segments that they will understand and be able to act on.
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