Beverly Pamela Somses

Experienced with bridging language barriers and ensuring clear communication. Utilizes linguistic and cultural knowledge to facilitate understanding in various settings. Track record of maintaining accuracy and neutrality, contributing to effective and seamless communication.

Diligent with strong background in facilitating clear and effective communication across diverse languages and cultures. Successfully assisted in numerous high-stakes negotiations and conferences, ensuring accurate and nuanced translations. Demonstrated proficiency in both consecutive and simultaneous interpretation while maintaining confidentiality and cultural sensitivity.

Diligent with strong background in facilitating clear and effective communication across diverse languages and cultures. Successfully assisted in numerous high-stakes negotiations and conferences, ensuring accurate and nuanced translations. Demonstrated proficiency in both consecutive and simultaneous interpretation while maintaining confidentiality and cultural sensitivity.

Diligent community facilitator with strong background in facilitating clear and effective communication across diverse languages and cultures. Successfully assisted in numerous high-stakes negotiations and conferences, ensuring accurate and nuanced translations. Demonstrated proficiency in both consecutive and simultaneous interpretation while maintaining confidentiality and cultural sensitivity.

• I joined the Namibia Association of Children with disabilities (NACD) as a Community Worker. In this role, I identified persons with disabilities within their communities and conducted home visits, particularly for those who would have received treatment plans from rehabilitation centers at district hospitals. My responsibilities included raising awareness on causes, manifestations, and management of various impairments, monitoring, and advising on physiotherapy plans. I established networks with other organizations for referral purposes.
• I got promoted to the District Rehabilitation Officer, and in this capacity, I represented the organization at the district level, engaging in networking and participating in district development platforms. I was responsible for producing district plans and reports, as well as supervising community workers, guiding them on appropriate interventions for each client identified.
• I was subsequently promoted to Advocacy and Gender Officer, and my focus shifted to the empowerment and social components of the CBR matrix, where I provided strategic advice on advocacy initiatives across all program areas.
• Key Achievements
• I initiated the concept of Community Disability Committees to enhance program ownership and sustainability, empowering local stakeholders to take active roles in the social integrainitiative
• I established self-advocacy groups to empower persons with disabilities, amplifying their voices and promoting self-representation within the community.
• I successfully integrated gender indicators into all projects under the community based rehabilitation program and developed appropriate monitoring and evaluation tools that assessed participation levels in community based rehabilitation activities for both men and women, contributing to a cultural shift. This initiative helped challenge traditional gender roles, encouraging fathers to take active responsibility for caring of their children with disabilities, rather than relegating this role to mothers.
• I played a pivotal role in the strategic transition of the Association from CBR to Community-Based Inclusive Development (CBID), which included developing new strategy to support this shift.

• I have extensive experience in working with children with disabilities for the past 22 years .Served on variuos development committees such as :
• Khomas Education Forum
• Council member - National Disability Council of Namibia
• Inclusion Africa -SACD representative on the board
• Namibia Qualifications Authority -board member
• SOS Children's Village - affiliate board member

I serve as an youth official ,children's rights advocate at various levels . In my free time i offer school talks to Primary and High school learners about life skills topics . 

Initiate lobbying activities for implementation of Inclusive Education in Government  & private Schools.

I participated at the Children's rights conference in Washington DC in 2005  and even contested for a position in the committee although I was not successful. 

Thereafter i participated in the State Parties Conference in New York in 2016 ,presenting about the rights of Children with disabilities .

I participated in the World Congress on Inclusion and advancement of Inclusive Education across the globe and nominated as being the Catalyst member of Inclusive Education Committee .

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