Nairobi — "I hear my parents say that it costs more to educate me than my normal brothers and sisters," said Atanus Muli a pupil at Thika School for the Blind.
Muli is part of the 3.5 percent population in Kenya that have a disability and noted with sadness that, "many children like me are hidden at home by their parents or guardians because they are ashamed of us."
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