Mission: To enhance the prevention of blindness, increase access to services and equalization of opportunities for visually impaired persons, through: enabling programmes, capacity building, networking, partnership and influencing change.

Vision: The Champion for a society in which no-one is needlessly blind and the needs, rights and participation of the visually impaired is ensured.

Message From The Director

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Welcome to the Kenya Society for the Blind website. Thank you for your interest in learning more about our work and mandate on eye care and prevention of avoidable blindness, education and rehabilitation of the

Exec. Director: Juliana Kivasuirreversibly blind. We are a non-profit making organization established in 1956 by an Act of Parliament with the objective of creating an environment that encourages the inclusion of persons with visually impairment in Kenya.

Who We Are

The Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB) is a charitable organization established in 1956 by an Act of Parliament Cap 251 of the laws of Kenya. KSB is a National Organization charged with the responsibility of serving all citizens of Kenya who are visually impaired or are at a risk of going blind. The Kenya Society for the Blind reaches out to visually impaired people in communities and helps to create a conducive environment for the empowerment of the visually impaired by promoting their welfare, training, education and employment, so that they may become self-sufficient and self-reliant.

Rehabilitation

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REHABILITATION MANDATE, VISION, MISSION
MANDATE
Giving life to those who are irreversibly blind through best rehabilitation practices
VISION
A society where no one is deprived of rehabilitation services
MISSION
To rehabilitate the irreversibly blind and give them life through quality training, advocacy, capacity building and networking
Rehabilitation services
We are here to:-
• Training in Orientation and Mobility, Independent Living Skills and Adaptive Computer Skills

Annual Golf Fundraising Tournament 10th June 2011

Fri, 20/05/2011 - 16:35 — admin

Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB) has annually set to make a difference for persons with visual impairment (PWVI) and their families by organizing charity golf-tournament to mobilize the society pool resources to support PWVI realize their full potential socially, economically and psychosocially. Funds raised are used to support needy learners with visual impairment, with learning equipments and materials (Braille machines, white canes, Braille paper), train teachers on Braille and low vision skills and facilitate training of PWVI on activities of daily living.

What we do

Bringing Eye Care Services To the People: The Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB) is the leading agency in the prevention of blindness in Kenya. Every year KSB provide eye care services to more than 500,000 people, including over 30,000 sight saving operations.
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