{"id":410579,"date":"2017-08-09T01:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/09\/consider-our-humanity-before-our-disability\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T01:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T01:30:24","slug":"consider-our-humanity-before-our-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/09\/consider-our-humanity-before-our-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider our humanity before our disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday,  8 August 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GNA<\/p>\n<p>2017-08-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/79149679.295.jpg\" alt=\"Consider Our Humanity 123\" title=\"Consider Our Humanity 123\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Mr. Daniel Oppong Lartey<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=150106940064497\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=150106940064497\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1502242224_203_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Mr. Daniel Oppong Lartey, President of Ghana Blind Union (GBU), Eastern Region, has asked Ghanaians  to put the humanity of Persons Living With Disability (PLWD) before their descriptions and classifications.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Tuesday, he bemoaned the pain PLWDs especially persons with visual impairment, go through when seeking for jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously, if you complete UCC you will be posted, but now it is not like that.<\/p>\n<p>You have to look for your own job and everybody is competing for the limited job spaces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cmost of these employers would look at your disability first before they look at the skills you have, and visual impairment is not a hidden disability. So once you appear before them, it is highly unlikely that they will consider you just for the fact that you are visually impaired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He however praised the Ghana Education Service (GES) for being the only institution in Ghana that had demonstrated enough regard for PLWDS by employing quite a number of them.<\/p>\n<p>He said visually impaired persons could be employed in the hospitals, for example, to do social work adding \u201ctalking to people on the need to pay their bills to ECG, or joining a sensitization team that talk about illegal wiring, etc. doesn\u2019t require eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, trained teachers with visual impairment would not be accepted by some directors of education had it not been for the fact that they were posted from the Ghana Education Service headquarters in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if you are looking for your own job, it does not come easy. There are a number of visually impaired graduates still unemployed and now at home struggling to survive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He observed that the Disability Act was passed to encourage the private sector in Ghana to employ PLWDs through tax rebates and other incentives \u201cbut the law has never been implemented so the private sector is also finding it difficult to absorb them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Evans Baah Tetteh, a graduate of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), with visual impairment, prayed government to give a quota of public sector employment to persons like him to make their lives less difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tetteh, who was skeptical about his chances at seeking a job said, \u201cI am currently at home after my national service and things are not easy. I believe having educated myself up to the degree level, I should be assisted to get a job to make my life meaningful and reap the benefits of education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He observed how troubling it was \u201chaving to go back to the same people who had assisted them with their education for further assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, we have done our part with all the challenges we face in life. <\/p>\n<p>It is time society and government come to our aid to assist us in getting a job,\u201d he pleaded.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 2 updated by: 2 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 8 August 2017 Source: GNA 2017-08-08 Mr. Daniel Oppong Lartey &#13; Mr. Daniel Oppong Lartey, President of Ghana Blind Union (GBU), Eastern Region, has asked Ghanaians to put the humanity of Persons Living With Disability (PLWD) before their descriptions and classifications. 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