PPERSONS with disabilities (PWDs) within the Awayaso East Municipal Assembly (AEMA) have received material and financial support in a bid to minimize poverty and improve their living conditions.
At a brief ceremony held at the
town hall of the municipal assembly at Kanda in Accra, a total of 46 PWDs were
given cash donations, sewing machines, among others, as support by the
management of the municipality.
In her address, the Municipal
Chief Executive (MCE) for AEMA, Hajia Salma Sani Kuta-Adams, commended the
organizers and beneficiaries for their hard work and patience respectively,
describing the exercise as “the collective desire of this assembly to support
persons with disability in the municipality to realize their full potentials.”
She disclosed that her assembly
constituted and inaugurated the District Fund Management Committee on March 4
this year after it had received allocation of four tranches of the fund for
disbursement.
Consequently, the Department of
Social Welfare and Community Development registered a total of 110 PWDs out of
which 46 were vetted and approved to receive support.
The Coordinator of the
Assembly, Nii Armah Ashitey, on his part, assured the PWDs to desist from
entertaining fears of their monies being misappropriated.
He said
all funds allocated to the assembly would only be used for their intended
objectives and that all funds used would duly be accounted for.
The
Disability Fund was introduced by former President John Agyekum Kufuor with the
aim of minimizing poverty among PWDs, particularly those outside the formal
sector of employment and the enhancement of their social image through
dignified labour.
In
recent years, the Akufo-Addo government has increased the District Assembly Common
Fund allocation from two to three per cent.
This
exercise is the first of its kind in the municipality.
The
various disability groupings in the AEMA) include physically and mentally
challenged, hearing impaired, cerebral palsy, burnt survival, autism and
multiple disability.
The 46 beneficiaries went home with items such as sewing machines, microwave ovens, refrigerators and cash donations among others.
By Nii Adjei Mensahfio
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