by Kupenda
Posted on February 14, 2019
Last week I watched 74 Kenya youth with disabilities have – quite literally – the time of their lives! All thanks to the Tim Tebow Foundation. On February 8th, Kupenda partnered with the St. James Anglican Church of Kenya to celebrate the Foundation’s Night to Shine initiative alongside 100,000 guests at churches around the world! This…
by Kupenda
Posted on January 18, 2019
Please join us at 6pm on Saturday, March 30th for our FREE Annual Spring Gala at the Grand View Farm & Marion Tavern in Burlington, Massachusetts! Guests will learn more about Kupenda and the work we do to help children with disabilities around the world, all while enjoying drinks, food, and live music! We will…
by Kupenda
Posted on December 3, 2018
Last Saturday, December 1, we joined with the World Health Organization (WHO) and our global partners to commemorate the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day. HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than 35 million lives so far. In 2017, 940,000 people died from HIV-related causes globally.…
by Kupenda
Posted on November 23, 2018
People in the community look at us and think we can’t do anything. But now those same people come to me and say, ‘Sophia can I borrow 30 shilling?’ I always look at these things that we make and think, we are not disabled we are differently-abled.” ~ Sophia, founder of The Haki Disabled Self…
by Kupenda
Posted on November 21, 2018
Yesterday was Universal Children’s Day! As you think of all the things you’re grateful for this Thanksgiving season, remember that almost 3 decades ago (On Nov 20 1989) the United Nation’s General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This was the first international treaty to explicitly recognize the rights of children with…
Kuhenza and Kupenda transform harmful beliefs surrounding disability to those that improve children’s lives.
