Celeb inspired by disability

The 37-year old woman has been an inspiration not only to people with disabilities, but to many others through her sturdy resolve to overcome numerous barriers that society has mounted between people with disabilities and the able bodied.
“Actually, it was a blessing in disguise for me to be disabled because having lived the world of non-disability and now with disability, I am in a unique position to relate to both worlds,” said Marume.
In several African countries people with disabilities have been severely discriminated against. In East Africa albinos have, for instance, been gruesomely murdered and their bodies dismembered for ritual purposes by people who believe that their body parts bring prosperity.
However, over the years the disability movement has been massing against such forms of accepted physical and social misnomers to a point that it has now drawn the attention of the world’s largest organisation, the United Nations, which in 2007 drew up a convention to “promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities and to promote respect for their inherent dignity”.
“Many people with disabled children are ashamed to be seen in public with them because of serious stigmatisation and I wish to encourage mothers with such children to love them.”
At the age of 17, Marume was involved in a car accident along Harare-Beitbridge Road and sustained spinal code injuries .