Ghana Journal on disability to be published soon

Kumasi, May 22, GNA - Ghana Journal on Disability, a book highlighting scientific research findings, challenges and general information on disability issues is to be published in 2011.

The quarterly Journal is a collaborative work between the Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies (CEDRES) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), National Council for Persons with Disability and Ghana Federation for the Disabled.

Dr. Anthony Edusei, Director of the CEDRES, said the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and the Hogeschool Leiden in the Netherlands would provide technical support. He was speaking at a day's video exhibition on disability in Kumasi, sponsored by Miss Mandy Tijm, a Public Health Post graduate student of the Free University in the Netherlands.

The exhibition code-named "Photo voice project-welcome to my life", featured visual images and documentaries on the daily lives of persons with disability in respect of their success stories and the challenges they experience.

Dr. Edusei said the exhibition was one of the many activities meant to build on the general level of consciousness on issues of disability. He said there was the need for institutional and attitudinal change to disability issues and that it should be factored into policy and decision making to improve the lives of the disabled. He commended Miss Tijm for her initiative and said he was hopeful that the exhibition would help to motivate the physically challenged to strive for excellence in their endeavors.

Nana Ampofo Kyei Baffour, the Chief of Asem in Kumasi, said District Assemblies should use some of their internally generated funds to train persons with disability to acquire employable skills. This, he said, would go a long way to assist them to lead dignified lives.