A forty-year-old partially blind and crippled woman is appealing to the Government to help her take care of her daughter with down syndrome.
Madam
Georgina Yawa Ankrah, amidst tears, said all her family members were
dead, her 13-year-old daughter with down syndrome and suspected
microcephaly was her only life-line.
Madam
Yawa, told the Special Mothers Project that doctors had diagnosed her
condition as diabetes but she had no one to help her with health care or
daily living, resorting to begging and herbal self-medication.
She has taken to begging by the roadside to support herself, since she cannot trace the father of her daughter.
A
teacher at the Dome M/A Primary and Junior High School who pleaded
anonymity, said Madam Yawa’s daughter, Jacqueline, who had down syndrome
had started menstruation and expressed fears that men could take
advantage of the young girl.
The
Special Mothers Project, an advocacy and awareness creation programme
on cerebral palsy issues, donated 700 cedis to support her upkeep.
Mrs
Hannah Awadzi, Executive Director of the Special Mothers Project, asked
Government to strengthen the social support systems in Ghana to take
care of families raising children with disabilities and other special
needs.
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