25-07-2010 The Upper East Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo at a ceremony at Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana East District has presented letters of appointment to 50 Persons living with Disability (PLWD) made up male and females. They are being employed under the National Youth Employment Programme as Office Assistants, teachers and sanitary inspectors among other positions. Mr. Woyongo, during the presentation of the letters, tasked person with disability not to look down upon themselves, since they have the ability and the skills to perform just like abled persons. He however entreated them to desist from alms begging but rather engage in profitable ventures to enhance their livelihood, adding that disable is not a barrier to progress. The Deputy National Co-ordinator of the NYEP in charge of Persons with Disability, Jacob Adongo commended government for his show of concern for persons with disability and urged other individuals and benevolent institution to supplement government’s effort in ensuring their total development. The Kassena-Nankana District Co-ordinator of the NYEP, Karim Mumin in an interview with Radio Ghana said his outfit in collaboration with the District Assembly, are poised to addressing the numerous challenges confronting persons with disability in the district. To this effect a physically challenged Craft Centre has been constructed in the district to engage physically challenged persons in profitable activities such as smock and basket weaving among other craft works. The facility he noted would go along way to make them productive and improve their standard of living. Mr Mumin also expressed his outfit’s desire to recruit more physically challenged persons into the various NYEP models.
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