Barriers

This video shows the barriers that everyone, teachers and pupils, disabled and non disabled, must overcome to get an education in the mountainous eastern regions of Uganda. Is it any wonder that dropout rates (see Education and Disability: Dropout Figures for Uganda) are so high? 

Who is disabled by barriers (see The Social Model of Disability: Education in Uganda)? If you accept a stereotypical view of disability (see Stigma and Disability: Stereotypes) 15 year old Silus Walenga does prove that "disability is not inability"; but ask yourself: How does someone in a wheelchair get to this school? How would someone that is blind negotiate the terrain?

Poverty is a further barrier to education (see Poverty and Disability Around the World). Silus Walenga must also work to pay for school fees and food so that he can go to school.

The poster says:

In our second part of insight Bududa and Mbale, we bring you a 15 year old Silus Walenga who crawls more than 5 kilometers to school.
Silus who was crippled in 2013 after a malaria attack does not only crawl to school but can also dig, look after cattle and do house chores.
Born in a poverty stricken family, the now disabled young boy wakes up very early in the morning to crawl through narrow and muddy road to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher.