Federal Govt Reaffirms Support, Training For Women, Girls, Caregivers For Disabilities

Federal government has reaffirmed its support and empowerment of women, girls, and caregivers of children with disabilities as a focal tool for alleviating poverty amongst the citizenry
The minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq, disclosed this at the graduation/closing ceremony of the skills acquisition training for women, girls and caregivers with disabilities yesterday at Industrial Training Fund (ITF) in Abuja.
Farouq said empirical evidence indicated that persons with disabilities and more importantly women and girls with disabilities were disproportionately affected by these ugly economic and developmental indexes.
“Thus, my ministry through the Special Needs Department under the mantra that there is ability in disability and that there is entrepreneurship in disability and in line with our mandate, thought it wise to organize the training with the following objectives to enhance the skill of the trainees in the selected trade areas, build their entrepreneurship skills and enhance their employer-of-labour potential,” she said.
Therefore, the minister said the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (FMHADMSD) in the discharge of its mandate through the Department of Special Needs (formally Rehabilitation Department), has embarked on numerous programmes and activities aimed at ameliorating the problems affecting PWDs in general and women with disabilities in particular.