Twin dormitories unveiled for Migori learners living with disability
Nyanza
By
Anne Atieno
| Jul 11, 2025
The National Fund for the Disabled of Kenya trustees has unveiled Sh4 million twin dormitories for learners living with disabilities in Migori County.
The dormitories will save the learners and their parents the agony of trekking long distances to access St Joseph Nyamosense School for the Deaf and keep them in school.
Francis Kibera, a trustee of the National Fund for the Disabled of Kenya, who led in the commissioning of the dormitories, described the infrastructural upgrade as a major milestone.
"With the dormitories, they will become bolder and will remove some of the burden from parents and guardians so that they will be able to perform other duties," Prof. Kibera said.
He says the challenges parents faced would not give them room to do anything throughout the year.
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"We believe the dormitories will lessen the burden or work for the parents and guardians so that the children here can concentrate as their parents or guardians continue fending for the rest of their families," Kibera who was speaking at the school situated in Mabera Sub-County, Migori County remarked.
Parents had been experiencing physically taxing routine of bringing their children to school and picking them in the evening.
Prof Julia Ojiambo who is trustee and Chair of Programs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the NFDK, said the facility would ensure that no child is left behind.
She thanked the community for bringing out the children to be assisted and appealed for more parents to the institution and avoid keeping them at home.
"Ample space has been provided by the boarding facilities. The boarding facilities can accommodate 100 learners," Prof Ojiambo said.
Esnas Asiyo, the school's Principal, said that most learners were missing school due to lack of enough boarding facilities.
According to the principal, some learners have been missing school for a whole term.
"On some days, we get only a small number of learners being brought to school. Their parents bring them for a term and they miss learning the other term," Ms Asiyo said.
She said that the twin dormitories which have bathrooms, toilets, sick bays and keepers' rooms will ease work for keepers who used to carry them to distant latrines at night.
"There are those children who were being carried to the latrines at night because the dormitories we had were just halls," she highlighted.
She said the learners would be comfortable at the dormitories saying that previously, they were sleeping in a dormitory shared by both girls and boys had mosquitoes and was cold.
The twin dormitories that will host boys and girls separately have a capacity of 50 learners each.