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General News on Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-06-12
Mrs Otiko Afisa Djaba, Former Minister for Women's Affairs, Childhood and Social Protection
Ms. Otiko Afisa Djaba, former Minister for Women's Affairs, Child Protection and Welfare, unveiled a partnership program with the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC) to provide badistance to bad cancer survivors in order to empower them economically.
This program, which is part of the Henry Djaba Foundation and which the former minister appointed in honor of his father, aims to rehabilitate the survivors of this deadly state so that they can regain a life and a normal economic health.
The Foundation is currently accepting survivor proposals to facilitate a MASLOC loan process so that these women can once again lead productive economic lives.
The Foundation is a gender and disability organization whose main mission is to work for the socio-economic transformation of vulnerable and disabled people, as well as the empowerment of women and children.
Start money
Ms. Djaba said she was also in talks with the Ministry of Enterprise Development to get a seed money of GH ¢ 2 million to support 1,000 women entrepreneurs with disabilities, including bad cancer survivors.
Under this agreement, survivors will pay half the amount of interest-free loans intended to "bring back their lives".
Ms. Djaba announced the news to more than 1,000 bad cancer survivors in Kumasi during a program organized jointly with Breast Care International and the Peace and Love Hospital, called "Let's Talk Fitness".
The survivors, who had previously formed the "Peace and Love Survivors Association," were to play a key role in the process of "restoring the lives of other survivors through of regular television shows, "said the former minister.
philanthropists
Ms. Djaba urged philanthropists and supporters to support the Henry Djaba Foundation's project to breathe new life into bad cancer survivors.
Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai, CEO of Peace and Love Hospital and President of Breast Care International, lamented the lack of a social support system for bad cancer survivors, who are not covered. by the national health insurance scheme.
She added that most women became poor after spending all their money on treatment bills, including surgery, transportation, food, and other ancillary needs.
Dr. Addai, who is also president of the Ghana Cancer Board, said post-operative treatments, including checkups, physiotherapy and mammograms, were crucial for patient survival and required financial badistance.
Advice
Ms. Bernice Ofosuhene Peasah, Clinical Psychologist and Advisor at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), encouraged survivors to seek professional advice and to stop reproaching themselves for what they had lived.
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