NGO Plans ICT Training For Physically Challenged

A non governmental organisation under the auspicies of Niger Delta  Coalition Against Violence (NDCAV) says it has concluded plans to train the less privileged people on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) programme.

The president of the group, Comrade Christian B. Lekia, unveiled this on Wednesday in Port Harcourt in an interview with newsmen.

Lekia said it was high time the government and other bodies paid serious attention to the handicapped in the society.

Though he did not condemn begging of alms by the handicapped but said that a proper ICT training will keep them  off the roads.

He was of the view that ICT has all it takes to empower anyone with a positive initiative to the  highest economic level in the society.

According to him the organisation will soon come up with modalities on how to select the participants and train them.

Accordingly, palm tops and other mini ICT materials may be provided at the end of the training.

Lekia, regretted that most handicapped persons are allowed to die in penury saying that attention is only given to the well-to-do people in the society.

About the funding of the programme, he said the group will contact all Niger Delta governors as well as network providers in the region.

He said resource persons on ICT from the area will be involved in the training so as to enable them get the latest on ICT development.

Lekia further explained that universities with nice ICT centres like the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) Nkpolu, will be included, adding that public spirited individuals should also brace up and fight the menace of begging in the street by giving them (beggers) a meaningful means of livelihood.