Various students of Makerere University Business School (MUBS) showed up for this year’s Disability Awareness Day.
The event was organized by the MUBS Disability Resource and Learning Center (MUBS DRLC) together with the MUBS disability community.
Under the theme “A day in my shoes; celebrating diversity and awareness for persons with different abilities”, the event was graced by the university’s guild president, the minister for persons with disabilities, MUBS, the principal of MUBS as well as several students.
While speaking at the event, a student only identified as Aisha, who has a walking disability called upon the able bodied students to stop pushing people of her kind in rush hours as she called for tolerance and help.
“When you meet someone with clutches, please wait for that person to go first. Sometimes you push us because you are rushing, it’s not nice. Just let that person to go because she needs to balance, the moment you push that person, a slight push she’s down,” Aisha advised.
Charles Olupot, the MUBS director of ICT center was among the revelers of the disability awareness day who called upon top people in policy making to lay a ground that would better the lives of persons with disabilities.
“Many times we are unaware of the challenges that people with disabilities go through. What I’ve learnt is that for those who are able to step ahead are able to do a lot of things, especially those in policy and have a key role to play, they can level the ground or make the ground much better for persons with disabilities,” Olupot said.
The event featured a lot of activities including; a parallel session about personal narratives of disability experience, music performances from Aisha, clutches and white cane races, taking group photos, sign language training among others.
Julius Ntende, the MUBS guild president joined several students in the white cane races as they battled for the first position . The white cane race included walking without a helper which was aimed at giving normal students a feel of what the visually impaired students experience in their day to day life. Ntende and other students were later given helpers to show them how much it would mean for the visually impaired students if someone gave a helping hand.
Aisha lighted up the event when she threw away her clutches and danced to Fille’s ‘Sabula’ song which came shortly after she had showcased her vocal talents while covering Mowzey Radio’s ‘Katonda Tambula Nange’.
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