By: Ewurabena Paha
A one year advocacy and sensitisation programme, spearheaded by the Disability and Social Development Advocacy Africa, also known as POSITIVE IMPACT, has begun at Enyinam in the Eastern Region to drive home the need for government to ratify the African Disability Protocol.
At the launch of the programme, founder of DaSDA, Isaac Kwaku Wadi said, persons with disabilities especially women face several challenges including access to health care delivery, job opportunities and social barriers that further exacerbates their condition.
This is why DaSDA took it upon itself to lead a campaign to highlight the problems women with disabilities have and call on the attention of the appropriate quarters to quickly address them.
Mr Wadi said the launch of the project brought to the fore the loopholes in policies and programmes that does not support women with disabilities.
He mentioned that such persons when seeking employment, for instance, are sidelined which should not be the case.
He narrated an instant where persons with albinism have been subjected to inhumane treatments and barred from accessing a community borehole because of their condition. In this regard, the NGO during the year long project will engage traditional and community rulers to educate them on the need to accept and support women with disabilities.
The project is being funded by ADD international through the Disability Justice Fund for Women. The organization also launched its official song track titled “We Rise” for the 12-month project.
The song calls on all stakeholders to rise to the cause of disability advocacy.
