The Kabaka Foundation, a social intervention and charitable organization under the Freedom Group, has distributed a number of wheelchairs to persons with disabilities in Nkwatia and Kwahu in the Eastern Region.
As part of its social responsibilities, the Executive Director of Kabaka Foundation, Dr. Henry Larbi, said, while speaking to Republic FM’s Andy Frimpong Manso, that this initiative forms part of the foundation’s and Nana Owiredu Wadie’s willingness to assist the less privileged and alleviate the burdens of persons with disabilities in the area.
Mr. Larbi indicated that this year’s donation began some six months ago as part of the foundation’s project, which is being funded by the Kabaka Foundation and Walk About Foundation, UK.
This initiative imported 175 wheelchairs, which are earmarked to provide support for children battling with cerebral palsy and to access assistive technology.
The foundation distributed the wheelchairs to beneficiaries in Kwahu Nkwatia, Konongo, Takoradi, Nsawam Orthopedic Training Center, and Akwamu.
He said the idea is to distribute the wheelchairs to their beneficiaries in their homes or where they work.
A team of experts has been put together to ensure the servicing and maintenance of the wheelchairs.
“Firstly, we’ll extend our gratitude to Nana Owiredu Wadie. We’re distributing wheelchairs to persons with disabilities. This is a project that started some six months ago this year. We’re partnering with Walk-about-foundation UK and the idea was to import 175 wheelchairs which are to help our people with disabilities and children living with cerebral palsy. These wheelchairs will assist them in their movement. We’ve shared some of them at Takoradi, Nsawam Orthopaedic Center and Kwahu Nkwatia. The plan is to send the wheelchairs to their homes and their working places, and we also have 10 experts put together to ensure that these wheelchairs are serviced and maintained”, he said.
Forty persons living with disabilities benefited from the project in Kwahu-NNkwatia. The Foundation, in its assertions, took measurements of the beneficiaries in order to provide wheelchairs that measure the size of the user.
“The motive of developing the Kwahu – Nkwatia by Nana Owiredu Wadie l is to ensure that, in development, nobody in the area is left behind”.
One of the recipients of the donation petitioned Nana Owiredu Wadie, the development chief of Nkwatia Kwahu, to establish a training and vocational center to equip them with skills that would support their daily needs.
“We have a bit of challenge and most of us have learned vocational training. Some of us are working, others are not, but we are pleading for you to assist us with a vocational training center, so we can gather ourselves there, learn and ply our trade, so we don’t become burden to society”
