If you think disability is not inability, think again...

Medi Ssengooba was speaking to Joy News recently about 10 years of the Disability Act in Ghana. He is the Program Officer for the Disability Rights Fund and a human rights lawyer. This is what Medi Ssengooba had to say about his education in Uganda:



A little bit of background information.

During this section of the interview Medi Ssengooba speaks about the right to education. This as what The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Summary says:
Article 24: Education: People with disabilities have a right to education without discrimination. Countries must ensure that people with disabilities can access an inclusive, quality and free primary and secondary education in their own community. Countries must also provide reasonable accommodation and individualised support to maximise academic and social development.

This is what the Disability Rights Fund says about Medi Ssengooba:

Medi Ssengooba is the Program Officer for Africa (Ghana and Uganda) for the Disability Rights Fund and the Disability Rights Advocacy Fund. He is responsible for grantmaking, grants oversight, and technical support to disabled persons organizations in Ghana and Uganda.
Medi has over ten years of experience in disability, legal aid, and human rights. Medi co-founded the Legal Action for Persons with Disabilities Uganda, a DPO which offers legal aid services to persons with disabilities. He was a Finberg Fellow at Human Rights Watch, where he documented human rights abuses against persons with psychosocial disabilities in public psychiatric hospitals and in private religious institutions, commonly known as prayer camps, in Ghana. Medi was an advisory board member of the Open Society Foundation Youth Initiative. With a Ford Foundation scholarship, Medi has a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from American University Washington College of Law where he specialized in international human rights law; he holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from Makerere University Kampala, Uganda, and was admitted to the Uganda Bar after obtaining a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Center in Kampala. Medi is a polio survivor.