Hannah Awadzi
The Reverend Stanley Mensah, Deputy General Overseer of the
Charismatic Evangelistic Ministry (CEM) has called on government to build
institutions that supports disabled person.
He said the existence of such institutions in Ghana will not
only help make them independent but will also help harness their abilities to
enable them contribute to the nation’s development
Rev. Mensah said this in an interview after his church CEM organized
an event to fete and provide medical care to thousands of persons living with
disability within the Accra metropolis and beyond.
He said: “I do not think that government has an idea about
the state of disability in the country,” adding that CEM’s decision to fete and
attend to the medical needs of disabled persons in Accra alone was an eye
opener to the extent of disability in the country.
Rev. Mensah said his church saw a similar thing being done
in London some years ago and they decided to replicate it in Ghana.
Mrs Hannah Awadzi, Initiator of the Special Mothers Project,
an advocacy and awareness creation programme on cerebral palsy use the
opportunity to talk to the pastor about cerebral palsy.
She said: “Cerebral Palsy is the single and most popular
cause of disability in children,” and urged the church to extend support to
families with cerebral palsy children, especially those in the rural areas.
Mrs Awadzi also called for data and accurate statistic on
cerebral palsy in Ghana to enable government knows the extent to which it
affects families and also affect policy formulation.
Ghana indeed needs institutions that support disabled person
especially children to enhance their lives, she added
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