Lead Disability Inclusive Society BC, was founded by Rev. Nungu Magdalene Manyi, who sustained a traumatic spinal cord injury at the age of 12 from an accident, while helping her grand mother to carry maize from the farm. As a result, she is quadriplegic.
Magdalene has experienced first hand the ordeals of living with a disability in Africa: Ranging from lack of Education, nutritive food, assistive devices, mobility tools, shelter, to attitudinal and architectural barriers.
The Lord laid a burden in her heart to start a Christian organization called Center for Empowerment of Females with Disabilities (CEFED), with the inspiration from Isaiah 40 -29 which states that,
” He gives strength to the weary and increase the power of the weak.”
This organization embarks on education and group homes for children with disabilities in inclusive settings and sharing the Gospel.
CEFED also empowers persons with disabilities and their families emotionally, physically, spiritually through a range of activities and promotes inclusive development in the communities.
Her works has gotten a tremendous impact in the communities, as it has changed attitudes towards persons with disabilities and reduced the vicious cycle of disability and poverty. This has led to improved physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of families affected with disabilities in Cameroon.
Her efforts has been greatly applauded as she has recieved so many awards along the line.
While in Canada as a newcomer with a disability, Magdalene faced lots of challenges: ranging from no Job, falling in the bathroom several times and going for days without showering because the Bathtub was not accessible and she could not have an assistant. These and many other ordeals led her to a trauma, to the extend that she had to seek for counseling. Thank God for the intervention of her doctor, counselor, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, social worker, and friends who came to her rescue.
However, the Lord Almighty helped her to become resilient and started an organization called
Lead Disability Inclusive Society BC. The purpose is to empower immigrants, refugees and displaced persons with disabilities and their families to transit into their new communities gracefully without stress, alongside their non- disabled counterparts.
The jurisdiction of this organization is British Columbia and Africa, with Head quarter in British Colombia Canada.
Magdalene has a degree in education majoring in English, a diploma in Special Needs and Inclusive Education, and a diploma in missions and Cross-Culture from Elim Bible College USA.
She is married, a mother of many children and very passionate in making a difference in the lives of children with disability physically, emotionally and spiritually.
she is an international conference speaker on disability and inclusive principles and practices and a minister of the Gospel.
She pioneered many inclusive education programs in Cameroon Africa, as she believes that, equal educational opportunity is a fundamental right.
Join her in making difference in lives of families affected with disabilities in BC and Africa.