FDID on engagement on Disability Bill
At a work shop held at the United Polio Brothers and Sisters Hall Kissy, disabled have called for the omission of section 2 (2) of the soon to be enacted Disability Bill.
Content as enshrined in the Bill explains how the National Commission is to be headed by a Chairman that has knowledge on disability issues; which to them must be removed unquestioned.
Anthony Kanu, a disabled person referencing sayings of sociologist Karl Max said “one can only be able to study people if one works in their own shoes and see the world through their own eyes.”
Put simple, it is better to have a disabled head the Commission than someone having knowledge in disability issues as said in the bill.
That he who feels it knows it. The United Polio Brothers and Sisters Association in Collaboration with the Foundation for Democratic Initiatives and Development (FDID) with support from Handicap International has organized a day’s workshop to train and raise awareness of stake holders cut across Motor Drivers and Bike Riders on issues bordering on the rights and access of people with disability to public transportation.
Speaking at the workshop, Programme Officer FDID, Abib Kamara, noted that disability affects hundreds of million of families in the world including Sierra Leone.
He further said that 10% of the worlds’ population or roughly 650 million people living with disabilities in most countries makes up the world’s largest minority group.
In Sierra Leone, 10% of the country’s population are disabled persons and therefore, face gross human right abuses and discriminations at their respective communities.
It was revealed however that the Association’s intension is to put up a multi purposed building so as to enable them expand on skilled training businesses.
Mr.Q Gerber and Lloyd Jusu, both legal Officers for Foundation for Democratic Initiatives, schooled participants on United Nation’s Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.
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