{"id":1190440,"date":"2022-08-25T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/25\/kimathi-and-partners-extend-support-to-university-students-with-disability\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:31:12","slug":"kimathi-and-partners-extend-support-to-university-students-with-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/25\/kimathi-and-partners-extend-support-to-university-students-with-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimathi and Partners extend support to university students with disability"},"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=\"Kimathi and Partners extend support to university students with disability\" title=\"Kimathi and Partners extend support to university students with disability\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Kimathi and Partners in collaboration with the office of students with special needs at the University of Ghana has implemented a programme to support students with a disability.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative includes a grant which will be accessible to persons with disability who gain admission to the University of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The grant which was initially given to blind persons will now be extended to every student with a disability.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"6lnZN5Q86LA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kimathi and Partners extend support to undergrads living with impairment\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6lnZN5Q86LA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The reform was announced at a symposium organised by the benefactors on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, Kimathi and Partners discussed with the beneficiaries job opportunities, development of soft entrepreneurial skills and provide general advice.<\/p>\n<p>Valarie Hilda from Kimathi and Partners speaking to <strong>JoyNews<\/strong> highlighted the importance of inclusiveness in the development of the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, persons with disability should not be marginalise in the building of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to help these minority groups so that they can have equal opportunities in society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As a person living with a disability, a legal practitioner asked the community to be resilient and dedicated to their education.<\/p>\n<p>He also hoped that, in the near future, persons living with a disability will be given the opportunity to be a decision maker.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimathi and Partners in collaboration with the office of students with special needs at the University of Ghana has implemented a programme to support students with a disability. The initiative includes a grant which will be accessible to persons with disability who gain admission to the University of Ghana. The grant which was initially given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1190445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[9683,3686,24367,1718,1951,115,2800],"class_list":["post-1190440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-disability","tag-extend","tag-kimathi","tag-partners","tag-students","tag-support","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190440","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=1190440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}