Assembly presents items to students with disabilities

The Lambussie-Karni District Assembly in the Upper West Region on Thursday presented some assorted items valued at GH?6,169.00 to the authorities of the Wa School for the Deaf.

The items which included student mattresses, uniforms and canvasses, Physical Education wear as well as washing and bathing soap among others in support of seven physically challenged students enrolled at the school by the Assembly.

Presenting the items, Mr. Bom Kofi Diyakah, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Lambussie-Karni disclosed that the amount was from the two per cent disability fund set aside by the Assembly to cater for the welfare of persons with disabilities in the District.

The DCE announced that the Assembly through the disability fund released a total amount of GH?4,000.00 to support two other students with disabilities to continue their education at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and the University of Education, Wineba (UEW).

Apart from the support to students, the Assembly also disbursed an amount of GH?20,000.00 as start-up capital for persons with disabilities to start different kinds of trades to support themselves, he said.

Mr. Diyakah emphasized that the Assembly would continue to deliver on its mandate effectively and efficiently to enable government to achieve its promise of creating a better Ghana for all to realize their fullest potentials.

The DCE recounted the difficulty the Assembly passed through in identifying such disabled children from their various communities and appealed to parents who have such children in their homes to desist from hiding them and bring them out for them to be supported to go to school.

Mr. Babinah Samuel Baginuoh, Headmaster of the Wa School for the Deaf thanked the DCE and the Assembly for the continued support to the school and urged other assemblies to emulate them.

He appealed to assemblies in the Region to try and allocate one per cent out of the two per cent allocation to the Disability Fund to support the special schools because he believe majority of persons with disabilities were in the special schools.

The Headmaster said persons with disabilities if supported through education could become bread winners of their families instead of remaining dependants for the rest of their lives.

Haduong Kayor, a student of the school thanked the DCE and the Assembly for the support and appealed to all including government, corporate bodies, benevolent individuals or groups, non-governmental and civil society organisations among others to come to their aid.