APDK Mombasa
The Mombasa APDK office is part of the national Association for the Physically Disabled of Kenya, founded in 1958. The organisation has 6 up-country branches, in Nairobi, Machakos, Embu, Nakuru, Kisii, Busia and Kisumu, as well as the Mombasa.
Mission Statement:
“To enable persons with disabilities to overcome their physical limitations and empower them physically, economically, and socially to become self-reliant and fully integrated members of their communities”.
Core institutional objectives of APDK are;
- To provide medical health care, rehabilitation and integration services to persons with disability in Kenya.
- To encourage the government and other authorities to conduct systematic research into the prevalence and needs of persons with disability.
- To encourage the cooperation of national and international organisations of, and for persons with disability.
- To aim at making the association into an organisation of persons with disability, through a determined policy of recruiting people who have disabilities to all bodies of the association.
- To disseminate information about persons with disabilities, their potential, available treatment, preventive measures, home based care a to increase public knowledge and awareness, to educate parents and community leaders.
- To collaborate with other stakeholders to maximise resources
