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Disability News Africa is Ghana’s premier disability news portal covering disability stories and serving as the mouthpiece for disabled people across Africa.

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For the past decades, Kanyizine Kansah, a 59-year-old visually impaired small-holder farmer at Karni in the Lambussie District in the Upper West Region, has been engaging in farming activities for survival.

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Our fellowship program provides financial support, exposure to global discourse and developments in the policy landscape, and mentoring to people with disabilities from low- and middle-income countries who are actively working on issues of inclusive

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The lead operator of the country’s two independent premier oil fields, Tullow Ghana, has partnered with Walkabout Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO),

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The National Council on Persons with Disability, the state agency for disability matters, and the disability movement in the country have launched a campaign to raise awareness about the existence of the Disability 2006, Act 715, and to ensure that

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The government has been urged to pay more attention to the rights of persons with disabilities in Ghana.

A human rights advocate, Josephine Oppong-Yeboah who made the call said many persons with disabilities are often times discriminated against, a

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I was neglected, abused, called names by my husband, and by some family members, and was left to suffer the ordeal of becoming disabled through no fault of mine, the ordeal of Ms Christiana Fosua.

MsFosua, now 39 years old, was happily married with

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he government has launched a GH¢12 million enterprise support programme for persons with disability (PWDs) in the country.

The PWD Enterprise Support Programme seeks to offer technical assistance andgrant funding initiatives exclusively to 150

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Dorothy was a girl from a village called Dzolo. She grew up in a good family with all the love and care a child would need to live a happy life.

Dorothy was a cute and smart girl. She was like the little princess in her village, and everybody loved her.

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THE New Juaben North Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region has supported 45 Persons with Disability (PWDs) with items worth GH¢140,000.00 to improve their economic activities and livelihoods.

Out of the number, 11 received industrial sewing

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Football star, Lionel Messi has joined a campaign to help visually impaired Ethiopians.

In a social media post, the Argentina’s World Cup-winning captain said he was honoured to team up with assistive devices company OrCam to donate visual aids to

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26-year-old Miss Nora Nuerkie Dawoo living with cerebral palsy is appealing to Universities in Ghana and abroad to give her a chance at university education.

Ms Dawoo, completed Senior High School (SHS) in 2018 but was failed by the West African

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Taking care of children with disabilities can be extremely challenging, which often leads to mental health conditions such as depression, panic attacks, and stress, as well as emotional and physical strain.

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Fifteen per cent of the world’s population do not only experience some form of disability; people with disabilities are faced with various barriers to social and economic inclusion.

These include inadequate access to physical environments and

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The Founder of Klicks Africa Foundation, an advocacy organisation for children with Autism and other intellectual disabilities has urged Pastors in the country to endeavour to preach acceptance of persons with disabilities (PWDs) to their members.

Mrs.

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A 32-year-old Nigerian nursing mother with mental health issues is still in the custody of the Willingway Foundation, an organisation involved in advocacy for mental health in Kumasi.

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26-year-old Dorcas Margaret Madjiki Madjitey who was believed to be the oldest person living with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (SBH) in Ghana has passed away.

She died about three weeks after undergoing surgery to correct a health challenge (

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The procurement and Business Support Manager of the Ghana office of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK government, has asked employers in the country to be “deliberate” about employing persons with disabilities (PWDs).

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A not-for-profit organisation, Inclusive Tech Group has held a Disability Inclusive Hackathon (DI-HACK), a competition in disability technologies in Accra.

DI-HACK is an initiative that encourages technocrats to come together with persons with

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Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD) in partnership with Standard Chartered Bank and six other organisations has held a career fair for persons with disabilities on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, in Accra.

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Iddrisu Abdul Hanan is a hearing-impaired Level 200 Student of the University of Education, Winneba (Distance Education), and a warehouse staff at LK International Company in Tamale.

Challenges 

He lamented the rapid rising of prices of commodities

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