Samuel Kabue, head of ecumenical network, advocates for people with disabilities
Samuel Kabue believes in giving people chances. He was born during the “very, very hard” colonial days in Kenya and saw his hopes for life after national independence changed when he became blind at age 16.
“I am what I am because people gave me a chance to prove myself,” said Kabue, an ordained elder of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa, who leads the Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network. He recently published a memoir, From the Village to the World.
In the 1990s he established a program for people with disabilities through the National Council for Churches of Kenya.
