From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
The Executive Director, of Women with Disabilities Self Reliance Foundation, (WWDSRF), Risikat Toyin Mohammed, has demanded a 40 percent increase in budget and revenue allocated to persons with disabilities.
She asserted this yesterday at close up of 3-day Gender Based Violence, GBV, training for women and girls with disabilities in Kaduna.
The Director revealed that Persons With Disabilities (PWD), suffered the most during the crisis and still have to endure various forms of abuse, emotionally, socially, psychologically, and physically simply because they are considered weak by society and even rejected by family and supposed friends.
Some forms of abuse suffered are rape, body shaming, denial of Human Rights, physical assault, discrimination, and in other cases having them become beggars as a means of livelihood.
The empowerment program which had more than 40 women and adolescents girls in attendance is in collaboration with various Organisations concerned with the affairs of persons with disabilities such as the Peace Action For Rapid and Transformative Nigeria Early Response, (PARTNER), Mercy Corps, WANEP, Kaduna State Peace Commission, (KSPC), and supported by the United States Intervention Development, (USAID).
The Programs Officer for Women with Disabilities Self-reliance Foundation, Garas Musa, said that the need to educate these women on their rights was urgent as some were already losing self-esteem and had even resorted to begging because of the rejection they suffered in society.
