Kairi Reading Contest

Since the Kairi reading contest for primary school students began on November 28th, enthusiasm has literally filled the Kairi Our Reading Spaces shipping container library where more than 80 students come to read daily.

What a wonderful sight to see so many children sitting quietly absorbed in a book. Clearly this reading competition, which runs through December 21st, has proven to be a huge success. We hope that all of these eager learners continue to advance their reading abilities and share the joy, knowledge, and inspirational stories that they read with others today and throughout their lives.

We encourage everyone to share the joy of reading with family and friends.

inABLE's Visually-Impaired IT Guru Wows Cisco Networking AcademyOfficials

[Photo caption: inABLE IT instructor Christine Kayathi demonstrates her computer capabilities to Cisco Networking Academy Officials]

Christine Kayathi, inABLE's visually impaired IT guru and a blind teacher at the Thika School for the Blind, met with Cisco Networking Academy officials on December 1st. Cisco's Kenya Manager Hital along with Den Sullivan, Head of Architectures and Enterprise Emerging Markets based in the United Arab Emirates, were immediately astonished by how fast Christine multitasked using different tabs in the browser.

Since our Cisco Academy guests had never seen a blind person maneuver a computer with such efficiency, they were quite impressed and promised to help Christine enhance her computer skills so that she can further advance technology at the Thika School for the Blind. Hital and Den also gave thumbs up to inABLE for their good work.

Here is another great story that shows that being blind does not mean having no vision. We are very proud of our adept computer instructor for setting a good example and shattering notions that blindness impedes computer proficiency.