TNMA supports Persons with Disabilities

By Erica
Apeatua Addo, GNA

Tarkwa (W/R), Sept. 24, GNA – The Tarkwa
Nsueam Municipal Assembly (TNMA) has presented equipments worth GH¢89,919 cedis
to forty eight Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in the Municipality.

The measure is to support PWD’s to venture
into various businesses to help them earn incomes to cater for their families.

The items included deep freezers, cassava
milling machines, knitting and sewing machines, fufu pounding machines, plastic
chairs, popcorn machines, cylinders and local FM transmitters.

The Assembly has also disbursed a sum of GH¢71,115
to thirty- eight PWDs to enable them settle their schools and medical bills.

In all, a total of 84 PWDs including the
physically challenged, visually and hearing impaired, benefited from the
Disability Fund, which was for the fourth quarter of 2016 and the whole of
2017.

Mr Glibert Kennedy Asmah, the Municipal Chief
Executive (MCE) of Tarkwa Nsueam, who made the presentation at a ceremony in
Tarkwa, said the Assembly received GH¢161,34.00 for the programme.

He said because the Government was committed
to the wellbeing of the physically challenged, it had increased the
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assembly Common Fund for PWDs from two
percent to three percent.

Mr Asmah said 375 PWDs had so far registered
in the Municipality and urged those who were still begging for alms to refrain
from the practice and join the association to benefit from the Fund.

He entreated the beneficiaries to put the
equipment they have been given to good use.

Mr Samuel Quansah, the Western Regional
Chairman of the Ghana Federation of the Disabled, said  “formally we were given money to our
members, but we realised that they were not utilizing it properly, so we decided
to set them up to enable them do something better on their own.

He expressed gratitude to the government for
its continuous interventions.

GNA

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