Having A Detailed Data Base Will Improve Welfare Of Persons With Disabilities- Lalu
The Albino Foundation Public Notice
By Our Reporters
The Executive Secretary, National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) Mr James Lalu has renewed calls for a detailed database of Persons With Disabilities to enhance their welfare in all facets of life.
The NCPWD boss was speaking at a two day brainstorming and capacity building workshop for association and organizations working with Persons With Disabilities organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
He opined that all hands must on the deck to ensure that the much desired data base is achieved adding that stakeholders working in the field must be their brothers keepers and sensitize their members on the need to register in the database.
Commending the organizers of the event for the innovative, Lalu thanked them for their unrelenting efforts and continuous strive to ensure that the capacity of persons, Associations and Organizations of Persons with Disabilities are strengthened to deliver on their mandates.
He further emphasized on the need for all PWD to be registered, acquire Certificate, thereby creating a concrete Data base for PWDs to work with to ensure that Persons with Disabilities have their fair and just allocation.
In his ever zealous nature to see that the mandates of this present administration are carried out to the latter, he called on UNESCO and other foreign donors not to relent on their continuous support towards the Disability Community, saying, “so together , with one voice, one mind and one Mission there will be no limits to the heights that can be attained by persons with Disabilities”.
The session was attended by the Executive Secretary NCPWD Mr James Lalu, Acting Director of Social Integration, Mr Lawrence Idemudia, Acting. Director, Planning Research and Statistics, Mr John Gyang and other staff of NCPWD.
Others include the JONAPWD President, Ms Judith Ekaette Umoh, Executive Director, CCD, Mr David Ayaele, Special Assistant to Governor’s on Disability matters from states, and other Stakeholders in the Disability Community.
