Kassena-Nankani West District disburses GH¢69, 896 to PWDs

By Afiiwo Kutajera Alfred, GNA

Paga (UE), March 12, GNA - The Kassena/Nankana West District in the Upper East Region, has disbursed a total amount of GH¢69,896 to 74 people living with various forms of disability in the District.

The money is the disability component of the District Assembly’s Common Fund and is meant to help the beneficiaries to start businesses, undergo apprenticeship training or undertake any other economic activity that will make them self-reliant.

At a brief ceremony held in Paga, to disburse the funds, the District Chief Executive, Mr Geared Ataogye, urged the beneficiaries to use the monies for its intended purpose, “do not put it in the bank and be going for it in bits, it will finish in no time, use it to do something that will bring you more money.”

He said he would join the monitoring team of the Assembly’s Fund Management Committee to monitor the progress of work of the beneficiaries to ensure that they complied with the usage guidelines.

He cautioned the beneficiaries not to use the money for drinking and other purposes other than income generating activities and told them, “Anyone who does not invest the money well will not stand the chance of benefiting again”.

Mr Samuel Bendure Songjei, the district President of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations, cautioned the beneficiaries against misapplying the funds given them as that would defeat the laudable intentions of the Disability Fund.

Mr Songjei urged them not to disappoint the monitoring committee when it starts its work, but rather work hard to ensure that the desired impact was achieved.

GNA

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