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PWDs to benefit disability Skills

People with Disabilities (PWDs) from the Nandom District in Upper West and its surroundings will soon benefit from an ultra-modern Disability Skill Learning and Business Centre.

Date Created : 10/17/2018 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : GNA

It will serve as a meeting point as well as a training and skills development venue for PWDs within the Nandom District catchment area.

This will equip them with skills for income generating activities, the Nandom District Chief Executive, Mr Thaddeus Arkum Aasoglenang said in an address to PWDs in Nandom. According to him, a needs assessment carried out among PWDs in Nandom suggested that a Disability Centre was the most pressing essential for the group at the moment.

He appealed to the Disability Fund Management Committee to liaise with the leadership of the PWD to arrange for a parcel of land at a vantage point for the construction of the skills development centre.

He said the Assembly had received GHC 196,681.24 this year from the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) secretariat meant for PWDs.This is by far the highest we have received from the DACF since the District was established in 2012, he said: the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led Government has always focused on the concerns of PWDs.

The President has developed compelling and deliberate policies that would support the lots of PWDs.

Mr Aasoglenang said: Today, the District Assembly through DACF will be supporting 253 PLWDs with equipment and machinery for start-ups, Farming activities, Mobility, Assistive devices, Educational and Health support.

The items are estimated to cost about GHs 74,3400.00. Government has increased the number of beneficiaries of the Livelihood Empowerment against poverty programme (LEAP) in mthe Nandom District to 2,915, he said.

The move is seen as firm commitment by the government to reduce poverty and meet the Sustainable Development Goals that aim at eradicating abject poverty.