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Persons Living With Disabilities, PWDs, nether the Federal Government of Nigeria/International Fund for Agricultural Development – Value Chain Development Programme, FGN/IFAD-VCDP, successful Niger State person pledged to discard attitudes and behaviours that substance antagonistic stereotypes against them, arsenic portion of efforts to beforehand inclusion and alteration societal perceptions.
They made this pledge during a specialised grooming programme organised by VCDP for PWDs beneficiaries from Bida and Kontagora Local Government Areas successful Minna.
Some of the participants said they had observed that definite behaviours among a fewer persons with disabilities often make antagonistic impressions and worsen stigma against the wider PWD community.
They explained that the grooming exposed them to amended ways of relating with nine and expressed readiness to measurement down the cognition gained to others successful their assorted communities.
The Rural Institution Gender Mainstreaming Officer of VCDP, Hajiya Maimuna Abubakar Ahmed, said the grooming was organised to physique the capableness of PWDs successful relating with radical successful society, adding that the programme has transformed galore lives since they were mainstreamed into the involution astir 4 years ago.
According to her, though the programme started successful 2014, PWDs were ...
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