The Akufo-Addo-led government will implement the 3 per cent increase in the Common Fund for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) as a way of ensuring that they receive the needed resources to make life comfortable for them, Otiko Afisa Djaba, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has said. Speaking at the maiden dialogue session with … Read more
Ghana has asked the United Nations to support her to resource citizens with disabilities with essential assistive devices to facilitate their full participation in national development efforts. Madam Otiko Afisah Djaba, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s representative to the 55th Session of the Commission for Social Development, said providing wheelchairs, braille, white canes hearing aids … Read more
Ghana’s Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, is the lead official in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government with the responsibility to rebuild Ghana’s economy. Prior to the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential election win, Dr. Bawumia drew a 10-point plan for solving Ghana’s youth unemployment problem at a public lecture organized by the Economics Students Association … Read more
Ghana’s Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is the lead official in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government with the responsibility to rebuild Ghana’s economy. Prior to the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential election win, Dr. Bawumia drew a 10-point plan for solving Ghana’s youth unemployment problem at a public lecture organized by the Economics Students Association … Read more
Ghana’s Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is the lead official in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government with the responsibility to rebuild Ghana’s economy. Prior to the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential election win, Dr. Bawumia drew a 10-point plan for solving Ghana’s youth unemployment problem at a public lecture organized by the Economics Students Association … Read more
The Disability Right Fund (DRF) coalition has called on the incoming government to review the Disability Act to conform to international standards and ensure the full realisation of rights of Persons with Disability (PWDs). Members of the coalition-Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD), Media Caucus on Disability and MindFreedom – also urged the incoming administration … Read more
It’s immoral for Mahama to take advantage of disabled people All leaders who have moral principles, and are serious, forward-thinking and committed, rather invest meaningfully in their people, including the disabled, and do away with meaningless slogans and systematic propagation of propagandistic materials. We hear President Mahama has chosen to make his 2016 Manifesto booklet … Read more
All leaders who have moral principles, and are serious, forward thinking and committed, rather invest meaningfully in their people, including the disabled, and do away with meaningless slogans and systematic propagation of propagandistic materials. We hear President Mahama has chosen to make his 2016 Manifesto booklet accessible to visually impaired people by producing braille version. … Read more
States too often fail to uphold their obligations with regard to women and girls with disabilities, treating them or allowing them to be treated as helpless objects of pity, subjected to hostility and exclusion, instead of empowering them to enjoy their fundamental human rights and freedoms, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities … Read more
All but three of 30 blind persons who applied for visas to attend the World Blind Union Conference in the United States have been denied, Concerned Persons with Disabilities, said on Tuesday. “We express our utter shock, surprise and disappointment at the manner the US Embassy in Ghana has dealt with the Visual Impaired Applicants … Read more