PWD's appeals for rehabilitation Centre
Kintampo, (B/A), March 30, GNA People with Disabilities in the Kintampo Municipality of the Brong-Ahafo Region have appealed to government to provide them with a rehabilitation Centre at Kintampo. They observed that the establishment of the Centre would help the 183 registered members to acquire formal education and other skill training. Mr Godwin Agyarko, Deputy Director, Human Resource, Monitoring and Evaluation of Mission of Hope Society (MIHOSO), a non-governmental organization, made the appeal on behalf of the people in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Kintampo on Saturday. According to Mr Agyarko because of the lack of a rehabilitation centre in the municipality, parents had to send their disabled children to special schools in either Kumasi or Accra. He said most of the parents could not afford to send their wards to the special schools, and as a result, many of the disabled children are left on the streets of Kintampo begging for alms. Mr Agyarko expressed worry that section of the public in the municipality still held the primitive belief that children born disabled were a curse from the gods and an abomination. He said because of that wrong perception, people with forms of disabilities in the municipality are stigmatized, victimized and abused to the extent that some parents and other relatives failed to give them food and shelter. Mr Agyarko emphasised that government, civil society and non-governmental organisations ought to collaborate effectively to help erode such wrong perception through education and advocacy. People with impairments are disabled by the fact that they are excluded from participation within the mainstream of society as a result of physical, organizational and attitudinal barriers he said, stressing that, these barriers prevent them from gaining equal access to information, education, employment, public transport, housing and social and recreational opportunities. Mr Agyarko said MIHOSO, in collaboration with Inclusion Ghana, an NGO, had initiated and would soon implement a project that would help integrate people with disabilities in the Upper East, Upper West, Northern and Brong-Ahafo Regions. The project is aimed at advocating against discrimination of disabled people and helping them to access their rights to social services.GNA
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