This Ability
This Ability
Broader Sectors
- Human Rights - Idajo/Justice
Demographic Focus
- People with Disabilities
Cohort: 01
- East Africa
- Kenya
This Ability is a women-led non-profit organization that works to advance the rights and inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in Kenya. The charitable trust’s objective is to amplify the voices and increase the visibility of women and girls with disabilities, creating a world in which more disabled people have equal opportunities economically, socially, and politically with their rights acknowledged, upheld, and respected.
Partner Impact
Leadership Highlight
Lizzie Kiama
Founder
At the age of 18, Lizzie became disabled as a result of a car accident that changed her life. She has dedicated the past decade to understanding the negativity around the term “disabled”. After years of exploration, she finally found the specific intersection where she felt she could bring a significant change in the world.
As the Founder of This Ability, Lizzie is amplifying the voices, building capacity, and creating visibility for women with disabilities across Kenya and beyond. In 2020, she launched the first national USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) platform to collect data on women and girls with disabilities and disseminate key information on sexual and reproductive health matters using mobile technology. The innovation helped break the misinformation barriers of a “taboo” topic in Kenyan society and had serious, though positive implications on women and girls with disabilities.
If we empower women with disabilities with relevant skills and confidence then we build their capacities to agitate for change in their respective spaces and ensure the rights and autonomy of women and girls with disabilities in Kenya.
