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By
Lawrencia Esi Annan / Fameye Eshun
Shama (WR), April 3
GNA – A total of 62 people with disabilities in the Shama District Assembly
received support in the form of cash, horizontal warehouses and freezers to improve
their living conditions.
Social well-being
Department of Shama District Assembly on behalf of the government filled
the promise to improve the lives of people with disabilities to enable them to be part of
society in general as set out in the Disability Act of 2006 (Law 715).
Articles composed of
sewing machines, corn mills, fufu mills, vegetable mills, laptops, refrigerators,
plastic chairs and silver were presented to people with disabilities.
S addressing to the
Beneficiaries, Mr. Joseph Amoah, District Director, Shama
the badembly, stated that the government had understood that the disability fund was
Initially, two per cent of the district badembly's pooled fund benefited only from
a small percentage of people with disabilities and therefore asked district bademblies to compile
a new registry of all persons with disabilities to empower them to become
badets.
Mr. Amoah stated that
The Shama District Assembly has so far registered 780 people with disabilities and
still count and that out of the 150 number have benefited from the fund in
different ways.
According to him, four
beneficiaries received money for medical treatment, 48 received
scholarships to pay their tuition fees, while the remaining 108 received
Silver items and rewards ranging from 1,500.00 to 3000.00 GH to explore
economic enterprises to improve their livelihoods.
He explained that 88
People with disabilities benefited from the first shipment last year and 62 people were
receiving theirs this year, adding that GH ¢ 23,680.00 had been disbursed
constituting 2% of the common fund of the district badembly.
Mr. Amoah explained
that people with disabilities have been invited to apply for the badistance program
an answer in that direction, pointing out that the process was a real one
one, where people with disabilities have expressed their concerns being specific to the needs
they wanted an address.
He warned, however,
to treat everything they had received with care as reports indicated that some
previous recipients sold their items and now relied on others for
subsistence.
Mr. Amoah promised that
the program would continue until each disabled person was
way or the other.
He said that people with disabilities
were no less human and so must be treated with respect and love,
"Disability is not a disability", these people are rather special
in their own way, he remarked.
Mr. Amoah accused the
The Social Protection Department will put in place mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation
to ensure that the purpose for which the government set aside the fund reaches
the necessary impact in the district and put in place corrective measures when
there were gaps.
Beneficiaries
thanked the Government and the Assembly for "remembering them and not having done
they feel excluded. "
GNA
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