Kyaninga Child Development Centre
Founded in 2014 by Steve and Asha Williams—in an effort to find help and services for their own son, Sidney—KCDC today provides early intervention, therapy, inclusive education, and access to assistive devices that help children with disabilities throughout rural Uganda build independence and dignity.
KCDC reaches more than 1,000 children each month—through its inclusive, affordable daily school-based program in Fort Portal, as well as through its multiple outreach programs that dispatch therapists to work in remote rural areas that otherwise have no access to critical services. By travelling directly to these communities, KCDC delivers consistent, holistic care that strengthens families and promotes long-term inclusion.
Innovation is central to their approach. Through Kyaninga Mobility, East Africa’s first local manufacturer of eco-friendly, ISO-compliant bamboo wheelchairs, KCDC is addressing the shortage of assistive devices while creating local jobs and advancing sustainable, locally driven solutions for disability inclusion.
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The Film
This is because he and his Ugandan team at KCDC are doing SO many extraordinary things at once—and all with such empathy, innovation, and passion. They are running the only inclusive school in Western Uganda, providing disability therapy daily to remote communities, and creating hundreds of off-road bamboo wheelchairs a month to meet a seemingly endless need.
Our team was mind-blown by all the groundbreaking work the heroes at KCDC are doing under the radar, and with so little fanfare.
After quite a number of years with therapy and rehabilitation, we have these great health outcomes—parents coming back saying the stigma has been removed. They feel part of their community again.
