From Tim Dzamboe, Ho
A Finnish organisation for the disabled, ABILIS Foundation, has partnered Voice of People with Disabilities in Ghana (VOICE) to advocate the plight of people with disabilities by way of granting loans to support their projects.
Under the partnership, ABILIS has granted the right to VOICE in Ghana to represent it in terms of supporting organisations of persons with disabilities in the country in writing funding proposals, assessing and recommending project applications and monitoring and evaluating projects that were supported by ABILIS in the country.
The Executive Director, Madam Marjo Heinonen, disclosed this during an encounter with some journalists during a visit to the country last weekend.
She said so far ABILIS had granted loans to 10 organisations of persons with disabilities in the country since 2008 and it is expected that more organisations would be funded in the coming years.
Madam Heinonen said the foundation granted loans ranging from 500 to 10,000 Euros to projects initiated by organisations of persons with disabilities, stressing that her organisation supported activities that contributed to equal opportunities for disabled people in the society through human rights, independent living and economy self sufficiency.
“Special priority is given to activities developed and implemented by women with disabilities”, she stated.
The project coordinator of ABILIS, Madam Jaanaz Linna, said disabled persons were their own experts in their predicaments and therefore should be active in promoting issues of disability, adding that the organisation had employed eight disabled persons so far.
She said more people were aware of the plight of disabled persons and that it had led to things being done differently in the interest of society.
Some of the on going projects supported by ABILIS are sited in Kadjebi and Jasikan in the Volta Region, Tamale in the Northern Region and Koforidua in the Eastern Region.
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