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Florence Ndagire
6 quotes
“Attitude! Attitude! And this is not just for persons with disabilities, this is for all. I always tell people that they must do what they need to do if they are to succeed. The moment you start thinking that you cannot do something because of whatever reason, this is when you start encountering self-imposed barriers. My parents were very empowering and they did not treat me in a special way and this helped me to consider myself as able to do what my siblings could do. However, there is a need for policies to be put in place that take care of the interests of people with special needs.”
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“I went to an integrated school as a child – one with children with and without special needs. It was a boarding school, but I learned how to be independent there. Once I got to law school, I didn’t let anything stop me. I was the Minister for Disability at my law school, and graduated and competed with other students. I represented Uganda in the inaugural African Youth Forum in Entebbe, Uganda in 2010, and that compelled me to keep rushing towards my dreams.”
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“There are, unfortunately, many things I can’t do on my own, such as crossing the street or reading a newspaper. But my sense of hearing and smell compensate for this! But I have never allowed my blindness to make me feel inferior. Both my mother and father also never made me feel different from my siblings. Now I am a mother of two children under the age of five, and that has its own day-to-day struggles, but I am managing it with the supportive help of my husband.”
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“I believe we became the forgotten group. The COVID-19 task forces and the humanitarian response measures care for every citizen, but persons with disabilities were forgotten. During the immunization process, disability was never prioritized as a condition or as a reason for vaccination in Uganda. Most people with disabilities have not been vaccinated. When testing for COVID-19, the statistics did not disaggregate data by disability, so it is not possible to know how many people with disability suffered from the disease, how many tested positive, and how many have died.”
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“Disability is central to health care, as most people with disability live on medications throughout their lifetime. Yet all is forgotten, when designing health programs. The one important thing we require is to make sure that the health care system involves persons with disabilities from the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation, and this is called universal health care.”
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“Everyone thinks I can’t do anything. Even when I show them that I can, they still don’t hire me. Besides, cases are so much work yet one doesn’t earn a lot. My life is too costly for me to do court work.”
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