This month, we've been able to join the DCM disabilities program team for some more in-depth field visits and meetings. Here are some pictures from our visits to a disabled self-help group meeting, home visits to project participants who sell their handiwork items in the DCM store, and a craft fair selling handiwork in Kisumu. It was inspiring and touching to see the perseverance and will to become self-sufficient that each of these disabled persons possessed. While they have learned to cope with their challenges, each is still faced with constant economic strain and daily obstacles to achieving their goals of self-sufficiency. DCM's program works to provide them with support, both physically, emotionally, monetarily and spiritually, but there is always more that can be done. Please keep these people in your prayers!
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| Oyugis Disabilities Self-Help Group Meeting |
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| Dorine, physically disabled since birth, with her mother and niece displaying her knitting work |
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| Lavender, a mentally disabled teenager, showing some of her looming handiwork |
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| Steven, made completely blind after a sickness in elementary school, with his family. Steven sells his woven items in the DCM artifact shop, but is also trained in farming and brick-making despite his blindness. |
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| The DCM Disabilities Program team selling artifacts made by disabilities program participants at a craft fair in Kisumu |
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| Teresa, a mentally disabled teenager, beginning to make her jewelry making specialty of paper beaded necklaces made from old calendars |
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| Teresa with a finished necklace |
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