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| PWDs are backed by the Shai-Osudoku District Assembly. |
100 people with disabilities (PWDs) have received gifts totaling GH$150,000 from the Shai-Osudoku District Assembly to help them become self-sufficient and improve their living conditions.
The contributions included a laptop, deep-freezers, bags of charcoal, a hand sewing machine, a popcorn machine, an embroidery machine, an industrial sowing machine, and a popcorn machine.
Some PWDs also got assistance for medical/assistive equipment in addition to the products that were purchased based on the Assembly's evaluation of their own requirements.
In a brief speech, Mr. Fred Offei, the Shai-Osudoku District Chief Executive, advised the recipients to use the funds as intended in order to reap the essential benefits and to push the Assembly to provide support for further PWDs.
He informed them that the Assembly's Fund Management Committee would keep an eye on and evaluate how the monies had been handled.
He said that the assistance they had been provided was intended for their overall well-being with the hope that it would produce better results.
Mr. Offei reminded the recipients of the Committee's dissatisfaction over how some PWDs had misused earlier disbursements while others had just stored the goods given to them in their rooms, defeating the goal of the presentation.
According to him, the Assembly would not be amenable to such circumstances.
A recipient, Ms. Mary Tetteh, thanked the Assembly for its assistance and said that it would go a long way toward assisting the group in setting up their own enterprises and rescuing them from their financial plight.
