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Mrs Amaechi To Engage Skilled Physically Challenged Persons
Wife of the Rivers State Governor Judith Amaechi has pledged her determination to employ physically challenged persons who have requisite skills in the ESI entrepreneurial centres.
Mrs Amaechi stated this Thursday during the International Day for persons living with disability in Port Harcourt.
She said that the Empowerment Support Initiative is founded to cater for the less privileged and special people adding that her NGO had initiated vocational programme to encourage entrepreneurial excellence among them
“The ESI will engage and encourage entrepreneurial excellence among you.”
She decried that 650 million people around the world are living with disability and frowned against discrimination of these special people.
She called for the dignity of the rights of the physically challenged persons and a proper legislation to promote the convention of their right as enshrined in the United Nations Charter.
According to her, “despite the significant population of these people, persons with disabilities have continued to face barriers to their participation in society and sometimes relegated to the background”.
She advocated that the well being of the people with disability is the responsibility of all “all stakeholders must be adequately involved in actualizing the objectives of the millennium development goals with the empowerment of the less privileged and physically challenged persons.
She added that the Rivers State Government had put in place programmes aimed at alleviating the plight of the people living with disability.
A broadcast journalist with disability, Kio Obomanu called for adequate training for the less privileged people.
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