{"id":9989,"date":"2026-08-17T02:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:36:55","slug":"stakeholders-urged-to-protect-the-disabled-and-less-privileged-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/stakeholders-urged-to-protect-the-disabled-and-less-privileged-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Stakeholders urged to protect the disabled and less privileged citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/82742-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/82742-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/82742-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/82742-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/82742.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the stakeholders who attended the one day meeting at the Kenya Institute of special Education (K.I.S.E.) at Kasarani in Nairobi county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stakeholders urged to protect the disabled and less privileged citizens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>By Fred Maingi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Stakeholders and the well privileged citizens have urged the government to protect the less privileged from social evils in the society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing a well attended meeting on the issues of gender equality,sexual abuse and challenges affecting the less privileged students at the Kenya Institute of special needs (K.I.S.E),World bank representative Dkt.Joan Mwende urged  rape victims and other negative behaviour to report them to the police and security agents.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said some of the parents and victims were afraid to report the offenders because of victimization and lack of adequate evidence to prosecute them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &#8221; Some of the parents fear to report the offenders due to victimisation,lack of adequate evidence and others fail to take up the matter because of their health  condition.&#8221; She noted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stakeholders appealed for Unity and co-operation between the affected families, the police and security Agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">K.I.S.E has the mandate of training teachers and other personnel who work in the field of special education,disabilities and conduct research issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the stakeholders who attended the one day meeting at the Kenya Institute of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9991,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}