We will continue to empower PWDs – South Dayi DCE

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By
Caleb Kuleke, GNA

Kpeve (V/R), Feb.
19, GNA – Mr Ernest Kodzo Mallet, District Chief Executive (DCE) for South Dayi
in the Volta Region said the Assembly is determined to empower Persons With
Disability (PWDs) to become economically independent.

He said the Assembly
believed that PWDs could contribute meaningfully to the growth of the local
economy when given the needed support.

Mr Mallet said this
when the Assembly presented the third tranche of 2019 assorted items worth GH¢49,066.32
to 28 PWDs at Kpeve, the District capital.

The items include;
14 deep freezers, one sewing machine, one knitting machine, 30 bags of
charcoal, six bags of cereals, packs of toothpaste, boxes of milk, boxes of tin
tomatoes, bags of iodine salt, and boxes of assorted biscuits.


Mr Mallet urged the
beneficiaries to endeavour to venture into viable economic activities that
would bring them daily income to take care of themselves and their
families. 

The DCE said the
Assembly was providing free National Health Insurance Scheme registration and
renewal for some PWDs in the District, adding that the Assembly was putting
necessary measures in place to get all of them to benefit from the policy.

He said plans were
also afoot to support those who wanted to acquire technical and vocational
skills. 

Mr Nathaniel
Adzotor, the District Coordinating Director said the items were presented to
the people based on the business plan submitted to the Assembly by the
beneficiaries.

He said the Assembly
had a monitoring team in place that monitored the activities of the beneficiaries
to ensure that the items were used judiciously to improve their livelihoods.

Madam Emma Adom, the
District Director of Social Welfare and Community Development said the District
currently had 465 PWDs, adding that 200 of them had already benefited from the
District Disability Fund.

She appealed to
those who have not benefited from the Fund to remain calm, and benefit when the
next allocation was released. 

Madam Adom said her
outfit would continue to provide technical backstopping to the beneficiaries to
enable them derive maximum benefits from the items.

She entreated the
beneficiaries to ensure that the items were properly maintained and also put to
good use.

The beneficiaries
were grateful to the Assembly for the support, saying the items would transform
their lives.

GNA