Anambra Govt, UNDP Train 30 Physically Challenged In Awka

The Anambra State government in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has held a re-training workshop for 30 physically Challenged Persons in Awka and has also provided them with empowerment items for self-reliance.
The workshop, which is on Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Framework, targets empowering an increased number of the physically challenged persons in the state to reduce poverty and unemployment among the less privileged and the physically challenged.
According to the Special Adviser to Anambra State Governor on Donor Agency, Mrs Nneka Onwudiwe, the initiative is in line with the vision of the State Governor, Willie Obiano, to ensure an all encompassing welfare development for every citizen irrespective of status.
For the organizers of the programme, the initiative was to ensure an all encompassing welfare impact on the citizens of the state in line with the vision of the State government.
The UNDP representative revealed that the empowerment would be accompanied with monitoring of the progress of the beneficiaries as well as providing opportunity for soft loans.
The beneficiaries were handed items of empowerment which they pledged to make judicious use of to ensure that their lives and that of their families were made better while living above poverty and beggarly life

pix 1(L-R): Wife of the governor Chief (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano, in handshake with the facilitator of the Grace Project International donation, Special Assistant, Donor Agencies, Mrs. Nneka Onwudiwe (in red), Hon Commissioner for Women Affairs, Dr. Victoria Chikwelu(Extreme right) and Senior Special Assistant Donor Agencies, Mr. Ernest Adinweruka at the presentation of 30 Wheelchairs to CAFÉ.