Nzema East Municipal Assembly have disbursed a total of Seven hundred and Sixty-eight million Ghana cedis to people with disability within the municipality to empower them to undertake economic ventures that would sustain their lives.
This was at a public forum organized for them by the Municipal Disability Fund Management Committee (MDFMC) in Axim for the disbursement.
The amount which was released to them during the forum was part of the Assembly’s share of the Common Fund and covered over hundred individuals with disability to help them finance their activities in order to champion their course in society.
The Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Frank Okpenyien in his address entreated the beneficiaries to try to invest the money into productive ventures to help uplift their standards of living and welfare in the society.
He added that a monitoring committee would be visiting the beneficiaries to monitor how judicious they are using the money and continued that the several others who have also applied for the fund would be considered the next time the releases were made available to the Assembly.
Member of Parliament for Evalue Ajomoro-Gwira constituency Honorable Catherine Afeku said the selection of beneficiaries was very transparent since they had used the prescribed guidelines to arrive at the decision as to who should benefit out of the numerous applications they received seeking for support from the fund.
She also said that the purpose of the fund was to empower persons with disability economically to get them out of the street begging for arms which sometimes resulted in the loss of precious lives of some of them through accidents.
The beneficiaries expressed their profound gratitude to the Assembly for considering them for the fund and promised to use it in ways that would benefit them and their dependents.
