{"id":1173300,"date":"2022-08-10T19:17:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/provide-facilities-for-children-with-special-needs-member-of-special-mothers-project-to-government\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:17:08","slug":"provide-facilities-for-children-with-special-needs-member-of-special-mothers-project-to-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/provide-facilities-for-children-with-special-needs-member-of-special-mothers-project-to-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Provide facilities for children with special needs &#8211; Member of Special Mothers Project to government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Provide facilities for children with special needs - Member of Special Mothers Project to government\" title=\"Provide facilities for children with special needs - Member of Special Mothers Project to government\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Member of the advocacy group, Special Mothers Project, Hannah Awadzi, has called on government to construct facilities for children with special needs in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Roselyn Felli on Prime Morning, Mrs Awadzi explained that this will enable parents of children with special needs to earn a living to carter for the children and other necessities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started advocating using social media to talk to the government to at least put in place some form of support systems and we\u2019re not asking for much. An inclusive classroom where you can leave your child and go and work, earn an income and come back to pick your child,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>This follows  Joy Prime documentary of a single father, Martin Segbedzi-Asato who had to quit his teaching job to carter for his child with cerebral palsy after the mother of the child abandoned them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>Mr. Asato leaves his child alone at home to go and make money from his motorbike business which he and his child live on.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2022, the Special Mothers project started a programme called, \u2018Home Care Programme\u2019 to train unemployed graduates to work and care for children with special disabilities, but parents could not afford the payment.<\/p>\n<p>As a mother of a 7-year-old child with cerebral palsy, Mrs Awadzi stated that it is very difficult for parents to carter for their children without supporting systems.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"eQ7YHoF1N3c\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Single father caters for son with cerebral palsy after mother abandoned them\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQ7YHoF1N3c?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Explaining to Roselyn Felli, she stated that Mr Asato can teach and take care of his child if facilities were available for the child\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he had a place to put his child where he knows that this is a safe place. I can go and be my teacher and come back, it would have helped him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Awadzi revealed that the group has been supporting Mr Asato with some funds but is not enough to keep him and the child she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also entreated parents of children with special needs to form groups to enable them to get emotional support from each other as some are more experienced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can form small support groups within their communities and I tell you there are people within your community who you don\u2019t know because they\u2019re hiding. So if people could come out, it will be very good,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of the advocacy group, Special Mothers Project, Hannah Awadzi, has called on government to construct facilities for children with special needs in the country. In an interview with Roselyn Felli on Prime Morning, Mrs Awadzi explained that this will enable parents of children with special needs to earn a living to carter for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1173302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[174,3388,1090,454,542,954,3424,1432],"class_list":["post-1173300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-children","tag-facilities","tag-government","tag-member","tag-mothers","tag-project","tag-provide","tag-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}