The Nzema East Municipal Assembly has disbursed a total of GHC768,000 to persons with disabilities within the municipality to empower them to undertake economic ventures that would sustain their lives.
This was done at a public forum organized for persons with disabilities by the Municipal Disability Fund Management Committee (MDFMC) in Axim for the disbursement.
The amount, which was released to the disabled during the forum was part of the assembly's share of the District Common Fund.
About 100 disabled persons benefited from the disbursement of the common fund to accelerate them champion their businesses for self-reliance.
The Municipal Chief Executive of the Nzema East Municipal Assembly, Frank Okpenyen in his address, entreated the beneficiaries to try to invest the money into productive ventures to help uplift their standards of living and welfare in the society.
He added that a monitoring committee would be visiting the beneficiaries to monitor how they will judiciously utilize the fund.
He encouraged other disabled persons who were disqualified when they applied for the fund to exercise patient, because they will be considered next time.
Member of Parliament for Evalue Ajomoro Gwira and Minister for Tourism and Creative Arts, Catherine Abelema Afeku, said the selection of the beneficiaries was very transparent since they used the prescribed guidelines to arrive at the decision as to who should benefit out of the numerous applicants.
She explained that the purpose of the fund was to empower persons with disabilities economically to get them out of the street begging for arms which sometimes result in the loss of lives.
The beneficiaries expressed profound appreciation to the government for considering them and promised to make good use of the support given them to become independent in the future.
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