ASSEMBLY ASSURES PHYSICALLY-CHALLENGED PEOPLE OF ASSISTANCE (PAGE 20, OCT 23)

THE Jomoro District branch of the Physically Challenged Association has been inaugurated with the assurance that the Jomoro District Assembly would help them in their activities any time they need genuine assistance.
The District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Victor Nyianyi Kablan, gave the assurance during the inauguration of the association at Half Assini.
He, however, informed members of the association of the existence of the Business Advisory Centre of the Rural Enterprise Project, and urged those who wanted to learn a trade to contact the centre for assistance.
He advised them not to be discouraged in life, because “we are all equal before God and that disability does not mean inability”.
Mr Kablan urged them also to strive hard to make good use of their given talents, adding that the district assembly would assist them to make life bearable.
The Jomoro District Officer of the Department of Social Welfare, Mr Samuel Nyanzu, enjoined the general public to assist the physically challenged, since some of them were in such condition through accidents and medical injections, apart from those who were born with the condition.
He briefed them on the special training institutions in the country for the deaf and dumb, the blind and the crippled, and advised parents to send their children with such disabilities there to be trained to become useful citizens.
Mr Nyanzu appealed to those who had not registered with the association to do so in their own interest.
The Presiding Member of the Jomoro District Assembly, Mr Francis Ehwie Armah, who chaired the function, urged the public not to look down on the physically challenged, but rather help them to survive.
He also advised parents not to abandon or neglect their children with disabilities.
Mr Armah implored the physically challenged people who sat by the roadside begging for alms to stop as the government was totally against such practice.
He suggested to the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare to support district social welfare officers to enable them to perform efficiently and creditably.