Dear disabled friends: You are not a burden. For disabled people, navigating an inaccessible society is an everyday reality. When we request changes, we are made to feel like an inconvenience. When a building is inaccessible, we feel like the problem. When we ask for help on public transportation, we are met with disapproval. We…
In 2011, following the famous 25,000 recruitment of youths into the public service, a protest was called by persons living with disabilities that they were sidelined during the recruitment process. I think this led the Ministries of Social Affairs and Employment to launch a new recruitment program exclusively for persons with disabilities. I was encouraged…
I am a girl from the south of Cameroon who was brought into this world by a man who was a soldier and a woman whose job was to take care of the home and the family. This union brought forth five children (3 boys and two girls), and I was of two children this…
Chrystabel is a 34-year-old single Mother of 3, paralyzed on both legs, by a Quinimax injection, in her childhood. This brave Lady raises her three children, with the meager earnings she makes as a hairdresser, in Mondoni, a small village in the Southwest Region of Cameroun. Chrystabel had to move out of their family house…
