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PWDs in Kwahu West receive support

By Eunice Tekie Tei, GNA

Nkwakaw (E/R), Nov. 18, GNA – The Kwahu West
Municipal Assembly through its District Disability Fund Management Committee
has provided income generating items to 144 Persons With Disability in the
municipality.

This comes as a result of the government’s pledge
to increase the disability fund component of the District Assemblies Common
Fund from two per cent to three per cent.

The items presented to the PWDs include deep
freezers, corn mills, gas ovens, sewing machines, plastic chairs, student
mattresses, spraying machines, knitting and show grinding machines.

Mr Yaw Owusu-Addo, the Municipal Chief
Executive (MCE), who disclosed this during the assembly’s meet-the-press forum
held at Nkawkaw, said the gesture was to fulfill the promise made by President
Akuffo-Addo during the 2016 election campaign.

He said the empowerment of PWDs is a way to
get them out of the streets and earn an economically rewarding occupation.

The MCE urged the beneficiaries to make
productive use of the items and reminded them that, there would be an intensive
and regular monitoring exercise to see what they are doing with the support
they received.

Mr Owusu-Addo said the Livelihood
Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme in the Municipality has also made
head way as a total of 1,458 households from 61 communities have been enrolled
onto the programme.

He said the assembly has registered over 200
beneficiaries under the National Health Insurance Scheme.

This, he said, was to enable the LEAP
beneficiary households access quality healthcare.

He said that intensive monitoring would be
instituted to ensure sustainability of the programme.

GNA

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