Wa Municipal Assembly has disbursed a total of GHC8, 802.00
to Persons With Disability (PWD) within the municipality to enable them
undertake economic ventures that would sustain their lives. The amount which
was part of the Assembly’s share of the Common Fund was given to about twenty
four selected beneficiaries and two groups of the Ghana Blind Union (GBU) and
the Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD). The fund is to empower the
disabled to take of their economic lives. The Municipal Chief Executive, Hon.
Ishahaku Nuhu-putiaha in his address entreated the beneficiaries to try to
invest the money into productive ventures to help uplift their standards of
living and welfare. The Chairman of the Municipal Disability Fund Management
Committee, Mr. Saeed Abdul Faruk said the selection of beneficiaries was very
transparent since they had used the prescribed guidelines to arrive at the
decision as to who should benefit out of the numerous applications they
received seeking for support from the fund. He stated that the purpose of the
fund was to empower persons with disability economically to get them out of the
street begging for arms. The beneficiaries expressed their gratitude to the
Assembly for the fund and promised to use it in ways that would benefit them
and their dependants.
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