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West Akim Assembly donates to PWDs

As part of Government's policy to make the Ghanaian citizenry have fair share of the national cake, the West Akim Municipal Assembly has donated items to some physically challenged persons in the municipality.

Date Created : 1/30/2023 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Aquinas Sambah/Ghanadistricts.com

The items ranged from deep freezers, Pepper grinding machines, Cocoa spraying machines, plastic chairs, Wellington boots, Manual, and Electric Sewing Machines, pesticides, Weedicides, and fertilizer.

Other items were bags of rice, gallons of oil, beans, gari, maize, onion, sugar, boxes of tomato paste and Sardine, and assorted provisions.

The rest were Shoe sewing, and designing machines, assorted bicycle, and motor parts, and cash donations.

In his welcome address, the Municipal Director for Social Welfare, Mr. Francis Opoku Nsiah, said it was government's policy stipulated to cushion the physically challenged persons, hence, the need to extend the gesture to the beneficiaries in the municipality.

He charged the beneficiaries to utilize the items for business purposes as intended.

Counseling the beneficiaries, the Municipal Coordinating Director, Mr. Paul McOfori, said physical disability was not an inability, adding that being physically challenged did not define a person to be a liability.

He charged the beneficiaries to endeavour to venture into businesses to avoid being liabilities on families.

The Disability Fund Committee Chairman who is also the Assembly Member for Osenase Aprampram No.1, Mr. Zormelo Amegbley, urged the beneficiaries to use the items for business purposes to make a living for themselves and families.

He noted that a monitoring team would periodically visit them in their communities to find out the state of their businesses.

The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Seth Oduro Boadu, buttressing on the counselling, said the physically challenged persons must not see themselves as outcast of society but must acknowledge that they were part of God's creation.

According to him, it was for this purpose the items were donated so as to cushion them in their businesses to stem the tide of liability on their families and public as a whole.

He urged the beneficiaries to desist from begging for alms and make judicious use of the items by venturing into businesses.

Reiterating the Municipal Assembly's commitment to monitoring the beneficiaries, the MCE said a team would go round to find out whether there were any challenges in the course of their businesses.