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Centre of Excellence

Our new headquarters accommodates the organisation’s expansion, providing purpose-built facilities that include multiple diverse therapy rooms, a rehabilitation facility, a hostel for patients requiring ongoing intensive therapy and their carers, a conference centre for community awareness, economic empowerment and technical training sessions. The Education Hub, Inclusive Model School and Youth Opportunities Centre will also be located on the same site, ensuring that children and their families can access all the services that they need.
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Building an inclusive community

KCDC has steadily grown over the last 10 years into a regional centre of excellence for community-based disability inclusion. We believe now is the time to start sharing our knowledge and best practices countrywide. We have reached over 7,000 children with a wide range of physical, intellectual and communication disabilities and their families and caregivers in the region. This has resulted in increased functional independence, increased enrolment in primary school and a 25% increase in quality of life.

To increase our impact, we are constructing a purpose-built centre of excellence that will become a radiating beacon that shows disability does not disqualify anyone from having equitable access to every aspect of life. Our centre will enhance our therapeutic effectiveness and ability to care for more children, provide practical help and information on human rights, access to inclusive education, adaptive equipment, and specialised therapy intervention, and nurture self-advocacy to create a permanent shift in society’s perception of disability.

The centre will include 6 multidisciplinary therapy rooms, a hydrotherapy pool, a conference centre for training and workshops, hostel facilities for long-distance families requiring short-stay specialist intensive therapy and longer-term rehabilitation services, and The Kyaninga Education Hub, Inclusive Model School and Youth Opportunities Centre.

"This level of impact is great, and the well-established centre of excellence (CoE) that we envision would enhance the capacity of KCDC to sustain this impact and boost and cascade it to other children and families. Other strategic focus areas of the CoE, such as research and innovation, training and mentorship, would also yield pivotal resources and contributions in the inclusion space. This potentially leads to more impact and inclusion in society. So, in summary, with a well-established CoE, the future can only be brighter for Children with disabilities and their families."

Charles Remo Joseph, Speech & Language Therapist and Clinical Team Lead, KCDC


 

 

 

 

 

Our Partners

Munich University of Applied Sciences and Bauen für Orangefarm

“Real Studio” is a design-and-build summer school project by the University of Applied Sciences Munich. It allows its architectural students to move beyond merely designing abstract structures. Instead, students work to design real buildings for non-profits in Africa and, during their long summer vacation, travel to the site to participate as volunteers in the project’s realisation.

KCDC was able to persuade the University of Applied Sciences Munich that the new Therapy, Rehabilitation and Education Centre would make an excellent candidate for the “Real Studio” project, meaning no professional fees for the design of the centre will be incurred, and representing a considerable saving on costly architectural fees for KCDC. The costs for accommodating, feeding and transporting the students and their tutors for 8 weeks, as well as international flights for the tutors, will be covered by the German non-profit BFOF (Bauen für Orangefarm). 

The building design incorporates locally sourced materials and locally available skilled labour, including our beneficiary families. This will also provide training opportunities for young people with disabilities to learn construction skills that can be used for future employment and entrepreneurship.