Kenya Network of Women and Girls with Disabilities

  By Elizabeth Ombati and Mildred Omino Alphine Chepkorir is a girl with a disability from West Pokot whose story recently featured on Citizen TV about being denied a chance to join a private university she had been placed in.  Alphine Chepkorir amekosa kujiunga na chuo kikuu kwa kuwa mlemavu One of the key reasons she could not join the university is its inaccessibility for Alphine as a girl with a physical disability. As would be expected, there have been different reactions to the situation, with concerned citizens offering to give a helping hand. There have been suggestions to move Alphine to a more accessible institution of higher learning.  These are all good intentions. We however write this piece to reiterate that good intentions must accompany system changes, if at all we are concerned about how our diversity of learners, including those with disabilities, access quality inclusive education. One thing at the back of our mind is, what happens to thousands of learners with di