 So welcome back to Why In The Morning, Queens Wednesday on Why In The Morning. My name is By Muses or It's By Mournevery. Social media platform and it stands for strength of a woman. So many people say discrimination is as a result of ignorance and people say it's inherited. So I have ladies from the Rare Beauty organization and they're here to demystify this and to tell us more about their projects. Thank you. Alright, so your camera is number four. You can introduce yourself since you are here first. Alright, my name is Mary Mokame. I'm an events organizer by profession and I run a company called Perigoni Events and I'm also the co-founder of Rare Beauty. I'm very passionate about climate change, community development and service. Climate change, community development and service. Wonderful. How about you? I'm Sauda Bashir. I'm a customer care at Sepharicom. Social media. You have a personal tweets with a lot of distrust. So I'm also a co-founder with Mary. And I really like fashion. I also like to bring awareness about disability and to see integration. Integration is your passion? Yes. And this is called Strength of Women as you can see and you ladies are very strong and I read what you guys are up to including this coming event on the 14th of February. It's a powerful cause that you guys have but I'd like to know how did you get into this? Alright. Firstly I attended an event by the UN for persons with disability and that's where I met Sauda so we sat down and discussed on the problems facing persons with disability and decided let us start our movement in order to create awareness and impact the community. So that's how we joined together and started the movement. How long ago was this Sauda? Last year. So Rare Beauty is like a year old. The first anniversary. We are going to be celebrating the first anniversary. Alright. So what is Mandate? What are you guys trying to push with this Rare Beauty thing? We are trying to bring awareness and mostly about our differences when it comes to beauty. So beauty is very subjective. Everybody has their own definition. So you are trying to bring awareness when it comes to beauty. Many times you said you are working with people living with disabilities. So many people discriminate what are some of the reasons you think people discriminate against people living with disability? I think mostly it's sort of ignorance. Ignorance is number one. Yes. You've not interacted with someone and therefore you don't know the kind of person they are. So to you, you really just put a hold because you don't know that person. So basically it's just ignorance. It's ignorance. So I've heard the certain cultures that also have the theories or some things that they say or things that they believe around people living with different abilities. What are some of the things you've heard when it comes to the Kenyan culture or things that have surprised you because I'm pretty sure you've experienced a lot. I think there's one where people assume maybe people with disability I'll talk about disability maybe like getting kids who are very scared of maybe the kids who will inherit your disability. That is number one, which is wrong? Yes, that is one of them. I think also the fact that people assume people with disability always are dependent on other people. Yes. While most of us are really independent. You have your own job. You got here by yourself and the list continues. You have an event coming up. And your tweets are fire as well. You're going to tell me who tweets who writes who's tweets but until then. So on 14th of February you have an event. So this event is a runway event is a runway show. Tell me more about it. So as you mentioned it's a runway show so we'll have around 10 to 15 models who are differently able showcase different clothes. We also have designers on board so we're going to have an hour session of the runway then we'll also have speakers who are also persons with disability just talk and encourage people so they all have significant positions in the community so they'll be able to encourage the audience that they can also make it and then we'll also have bands bands and DJs also persons with disability some food and lots of fun. Food and lots of fun and fashion is going to be going on. Alright, so how much do I have to put to be part of this on the 14th of February? Okay, so for the individual ticket is 1500 which is of course inclusive of food drinks and a gift hamper and for couples it's 2500. So couples it doesn't have to be a sort of relationship just come with your friend, with your buddy yes. Alright, I'm curious all these things that are going to be happening from the fashion to the food to the entertainment is it going to be people with different abilities or it's all inclusive? Well, for the runway show is for persons with disability but for the audience everyone is invited Yes, because our agenda is to create awareness about the persons with disability so that's why the runway show is specifically for persons with disability Do we have some designers who are living with different abilities? Yes, they are. I'd really like to meet some of them This is going to be fire for real You too. Alright, so one thing I know is the people living with different ability because your goal is awareness in the long run The people living with different ability some of them are the most conscious people I've ever met but the problem is always outside the perpetrators of this discrimination. So how are you trying to include these people and how are you trying to make a change from outside? Okay So the ways in which we are creating awareness first is to create events that are all inclusive So during these events we have people networking So this is the easiest way to create awareness where people will have a one-on-one talk with each other The other way is to we are trying to penetrate the advertisement industry by having our models sort of advertise company's products So this will also be able to create a big impact in the community at large while seeing persons with disability advertising products And this is going to be a very big step for them So as it is right now you're telling me advertisers do not incorporate people living with different abilities None that I've seen so far None that you've seen so far You're yet to see what Even fashion, I haven't seen it like runways I haven't seen it so that's what you're trying to you know like the other people with disability should also be part of this because you see at the end of it the other people with disability mostly maybe the young generation So you see I've never seen anyone with disability or albinism or with vitiligo on an advert or on a runway here in Kenya You know In Kenya I've never seen Yes, outside they're there I've never seen any So you see when a child who has that they have no one to really look up to or someone reading the news or a host like you I need a co-host I like that So these kids need somebody to look up to Did you have somebody to look up to you as well? Nope I actually wanted to be on radio at some point Your dreams are still valid Yes they are But you see I've never seen anyone here doing it So there was never really a mentor I'm not saying that maybe I should be the first but you never know But I'm saying the more people see it the more people will be aware of it and people will stop staring and you know such stuff So the more we put it out the more it becomes normal So it's upon us every single one of us the people living with different abilities and the rest of the people Wonderful The conversation goes on and remember we're on Facebook on Twitter and on Instagram the topic of conversation is creating awareness around people living with different abilities from what is the name of the company Rear Beauty If you're willing to support we're going to be giving you more information towards the end of this But before that What are the things that you're involved in I know there's an event going on and there's fashion involved What are some of the other things that you're doing on the side with the Rear Beauty movement So apart from the events and apart from also the advertisements we're also doing CSR projects where we're going outside there to the community to be part of an activity like if it is talking to young girls talking to young boys going to schools cleaning the environment that's part of how we're also creating awareness Since you give back like 90% of your day What's the time to do the rest of your life I think it's just a balanced a balanced sort of thing because we all have a lot of time with us, it's just what you actually input in every segment of your time So basically we're able to balance and handle Are you going to be on the runway Nope Why now You like being on the back You like being behind the scenes So everybody has a role to play in this What kind of what different forms of ability are we going to be seeing on that runway So we have persons with vitiligo persons with albinism and persons with graphism and I think Yes So all that Alright, it's going to be a runway for you How can they catch you guys on social media I just in case they'd like to interact with you and see what you guys are up to So on Facebook we're at Rear Beauty Movement Twitter Rear Beauty Movement as well and Instagram too Everywhere Rear Beauty Movement What about your personal Soudha Bashir That's Instagram I'm not really active on Facebook but on Twitter it's Soudha B Alright Myself on Facebook I'm Mary Julius On Instagram I'm Mary Kami and Twitter I'm Mary Julius Alright Let's get to serious issues now and this one is about a legislation that was passed and it says a certain percentage of appointments tenders and everything from the national government and the county government I need to go to the women the youth and persons living with different abilities So far Are you satisfied with it First of all I wish you could not have special appointments or special appointments for such people and the reason is I wish there was more like from education if we started from the education system where there were no special schools you know like where we all go to regular schools I went to regular schools but because of the infrastructure it's a bit difficult So I feel like if we were young those integration we would have lived with each other that we understand each other but we don't have to have a special the reason why the special is because we can't fight equally there's no balance for us Alright so it starts with the basic set of over society the schools you treated in a different way from other people you have to go to a different school whereas in a world in the world that you'd like your kids to leave and you'd like all these kids to go to the same school to have infrastructure that incorporates people on wheelchairs, people on crashes and everything because you'll notice maybe if someone wants to run for a political post first of all people will be like first of all if you have to be carried on to the podium so people are wondering okay this person can even do stuff for themselves that's how people are going to reason but you see at the end of it ignorance like she said yes so when you stand for that post first of all you have to explain yourself like you know even if I'm physically challenged this is the so you have to start fast defending yourself then what you can do for the community even at work when you're going for an interview it's the same same thing people first look at you at your disability and judge you with that and then look at your CV but still this is going to come up alright what is the solution to this what do you think is the solution to this because I know solutions are not something constant they're not okay you try a solution if it doesn't work you fix it if it doesn't work you fix it so what do you think is the solution as we move from 2020 moving forward I think as she had mentioned in terms of schools let's first start from young age where we have everything incorporated together that's in schools so when young kids grow up together incorporated there won't be anything like a separation or anything hard when they're already grown up because they're already used to each other so it can start from as while they are young from the education system where we have schools incorporating everyone at large that can be a very good way to start because when they are kids there is a very good place to start alright you have something against the posts that I just handed out to the women, to the youth and people living with different abilities so you think the playing field should be leveled so that we just compete equally alright so could I add something apart from integration I think even we have so many man made barriers for example I had to climb stairs like everywhere you go it's very hard for me to access so even if I'm coming to this place I have to google I have to really find out about the place, the structure even the transport system so planning your day starts yesterday so you have to plan everything every single thing sometimes I'll be like no I can't come I might not even go for a job interview because what if I get that job I can't even get up to the building or even the transport because in a bus I can't get on a bus unless I be carried so people need to be more conscious and aware about these things some people will say alright I didn't know and which I know is not a defense in God, I didn't know when I was constructing this building I didn't know when I was constructing this school I didn't know so many people are going to say I didn't know what is the solution to I didn't know well basically that's fine because it's such a level of ignorance that really really it hurts to even say that you don't know about something because everywhere you go you'll definitely meet a person with disability so you choose to ignore that you actually saw someone with disability or the fact that you actually don't want any person with disability to access your building so I think the more we create awareness we should also be acceptance of the fact that we are differently and we are all unique in our way so we should be able to incorporate each other alright wonderful so every time every time I hear women, children youth persons living with different abilities it leaves out one group of people you know what group of people it is it leaves out old men do you think it's right to say our problem is the old men not I don't think so yes we need to accept responsibility all of us we need to accept responsibility as a whole alright wonderful let's get back to this event I'm sorry that was deep that was I got a lot of tension in it but let's get back to the event on Valentine's Day what time to what time and the venue so the venue will be at Desmond Tutu all which is on Waiakiwe and the time will be from 5.30 to 9.30pm 5.30 to 9.30pm there's a runway there's food, there's fashion and there's a lot to learn in the process as well alright so 14th February Desmond Tutu along Waiakiwe 5.30 to 9.30pm alright remember that is going down Desmond Tutu along Waiakiwe and this is on 14th February this is the day of love for sure so I'm guessing you guys have a dress code yes we do there's red, black and a touch of gold red, black and a touch of gold royal colors right there alright wonderful another time just give them your social media handles so they can interact with you just in case they'd like to support Rare Beauty so at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram we are at Rare Beauty movement yes what is your message to the viewers right now speak to the nation address the nation let me restart alright since she was here first alright so I'd urge all of us to be able to first of all attend the event so that you can see what we have in store for you and two to be able to support us in this journey to create awareness so that we can be able to have an integrated society integrated society is the goal I'd like to welcome everyone to come and attend the show there's a lot to learn you're going to meet a lot of people and it will also help you to open your eyes and see that we are all different but we are all the same we are all different we are all the same wow that's deep we are all different thank you very much for coming through and all the best at your event and all the best in your endeavours and thank you very much for what you are doing engaging in awareness I see the pictures be flashing on our TV right there these are some of the models we are going to be having alright this is one of them maybe we can get another one so people can get to see what they're in for alright as they lined that up Y2F4 channel on Twitter Y2F4 underscore channel on Instagram and Y2F4 on Facebook in the morning and we have another beautiful lady on screen right there in red attire this is also another model that we are going to be having on the runway this is another one so much beauty on this runway this is another one this is the you were talking about rare and beautiful wow all these things are on your social media pages all these pictures we can see them we can find them and get to appreciate wonderful that is that rare beauty she looks very familiar I know alright so thank you very much once more and we have come to the end of this strength of a woman segment on this particular quiz Wednesday on why in the morning remember there is something going down at Desmond Tutu along way Hakiway on the 14th of February and this one is for the people living with different abilities it goes down from 5.30 all the way till 9 this fashion there is food, there is music and there is a lot of enjoyment and there is a lot of awareness you are going to walk out of that place with until then Kalamivali is coming up next with Girl's Talk a hot topic you don't want to miss it