KISE’s First Deaf Awareness Event Inspires Inclusion

By Nadia Muthoni On Friday morning the 26th of September 2025 at the Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), the campus buzzed with energy unlike any other day. It wasn’t just another event on the calendar, it was history in the making. For the very first time, KISE opened its doors to host a Deaf…

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Hundreds Queue for Disability Assessment In Tharaka Nithi as KISE Rewrites Stories of Hope

KISE team helping a man with disability

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M-Pesa Foundation and KISE Hold Free Medical Camp in West Pokot

By Grace Njoki KACHELIBA, West Pokot – Saturday, 13th September 2025 will be remembered as a day of hope for hundreds of families in Kacheliba Sub-County, after the M-Pesa Foundation in partnership with the Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE) organized a free medical outreach camp at St. Kacheliba Girls School. From as early as…

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Movement is Medicine: Celebrating World Physiotherapy Day

By Nadia Muthoni If you were to ask most people what “physiotherapy” means, they’d probably say it has something to do with exercises after an injury. And while that’s true, it’s only the tip of the iceberg. The word itself comes from two Greek terms: phusis meaning nature, and therapia meaning healing. Put together, physiotherapy…

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HANDS THAT SPEAK: Sign Language, Kenya’s Third Language

By Nadia Muthoni Imagine this, a young man in a matatu taps the shoulder of a fellow passenger to excuse himself, but the passenger does not respond. The tap grows firmer, and so does the confusion. Only when another commuter starts gesturing with her hands and the young man realizes the passenger is deaf. The…

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