Committed to serving the community especially the Physically-Challenged Persons, Lady Chioma Oti, a native of Oboro Ikwuano in Abia State has established a non-governmental organisation PLEO Reachout, to empower and give voice to people living with disabilities. According to Oti, people living with disabilities are deprived of the normal livelihood as they are treated in isolation and segregation. She said: “The physically challenged are deprived of education, employment and other basics of life which is why a huge number of the disabled in Nigeria live in abject poverty, hence the need for PLEO Reachout. Before the pandemic livelihood was hard for the physical challenge, now it is even harder. This is why we distributed COVID-19 palliatives in terms of food items, others, to people living with disability across the country.”

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2020 03:00 UTC