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I look at myself
--look figuratively at myself--
and
I think
I grew up
a child of charity
So I went to school, you know, because
there was this consular Catholic missionary
who established a school.
There was
this consular
doctor--physician--
who at
an opportune moment told my Dad, "You know, now that your son is
blind,
the best thing you can do for him is take him to this school."
So you see, all this in a sense was a coincidence, it's all coincidental.
I think today,
we need to be at a place where we are not dealing on the basis that our children
will grow up because of charity,
whether actually our children will grow up as a right.
So then,
when in Kenya,
a child with a disability, when they go to the Ministry of Education and
they are asking, "So, I want a school, I want to be in school,"
the Ministry will not respond, "Go to the Lions Club" or, "Go and find charity
--go somewhere and find someone who can pay your school fees."
It will be clear that actually, the child as a matter of right will get
education. And so for me I think that's a critical thing. And so you can look at
education, you could look at health, you can look at
issues of accessibility,
and that's why we need to have a focus on the human rights approach.