The facilitator reminded participants that in order for them to end discrimination against people with disabilities, the citizenry must change their attitude and perception toward persons with disabilities; they should stop seeing and stereotyping persons with disabilities and considered them as beggars, insignificant and worthless to incorporate them into the society as they too have valuable contributions to make in spite of their disabilities. Narrating the story Mr. Greene who is now a grow up man and an instructor at the Booker Washington Institute BWI was seeing crying in the midst of the participants. After all of these distressed, neglect and discrimination his grandmother broke the stomp and fought hard to ensured that her grandson acquired education and given a peace of happiness, in closing he said his narration those not in any means for people to feels for him or have empathy with him. But it is important to share some of his live changing experience. The participants applauded YOCEL and its partner the Open Society Initiative for West Africa OSIWA for providing the support.

Source: Front Page Africa February 17, 2019 21:53 UTC