Fredrick Ouko Alucheli is disabled. He uses two elbow crutches to support his weight and a caliper for walking. He grew up in West Kenya and both his parents are peasants. But the defining feature of Mr Alucheli is his job – the head of Action Network for the Disabled (Andy), the organisation he founded when he was 20.
“We wanted to stop the fact that persons with disabilities are banished to the periphery of society, confined in the dark alleys and only taken as objects of charity and perpetual beggars,” he says. “The organisation exists to demonstrate that disability is not inability or the end of life for a person – there is a lot more that one can do given necessary support.”
