By: Desmond Cudjoes
National Democratic Congress, NDC has engaged Persons with Disabilities, PWDs, in the Shama District of the Western Region to share the party’s policies and programmes with them, and also seek their inputs into the party’s 2024 manifesto.
This is in line with the inclusive nature of the NDC’s agenda of ensuring that, all segments of society including the vulnerable and marginalized, are part of Ghana’s development.
Major challenges confronting Persons with Disabilities – PWDs – in the country include difficulty in climbing stairs or accessing public buildings; the non-availability of sign language interpreters, delay in the release of their share of the Common Fund, and stigma among others.
It is to address these concerns that, the Gender, Children and Social Protection Committee of the NDC engaged with the PWDs, comprising members of the Ghana Blind Union, Ghana National Association of the Deaf and the Ghana Society for the Physically Disabled among others, to outline the party’s programmes and policies meant to address such challenges.
The underlying objective was to get the PWDs’ buy-in or their acceptance of the NDC’s 2024 campaign agenda. It was also to seek the concerns of the PWDs and incorporate them into the party’s agenda.
The National Co-ordinator of the Disability Desk of the NDC, Mr. Frederick Assor said the next NDC government would increase the percentage of the Common Fund usually given to the PWDs.
The NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Shama, Miss Emelia Arthur said as a listening party, the concerns raised would find expression in the party’s agenda after fine-tuning it to fit into the social democratic policies of the party.
