Disabled grieve over treatment

Shocking treatment: Gunshot wound, denial of disabled housemaid
IPPmedia
For what is believed to be domestic workers discrimination, the renowned business person, Haruna Zakaria the owner Murza Oil Mills LTD, is alleged to have deserted his former house maid suffering gun wound for years in Dar es Salaam. Ms Debora John ...

Mr Tumaini Mcharo 44, is one of the reported 2.5 million Tanzanians living with one form of disability or other. As experts gathered last weekend in Dar es Salaam to discuss ways of helping the disabled, Mr Mcharo, who was at the meeting, gave a testimony to the common adage that disability is not inability.

A Constituent Assembly (CA) member has praised the CA secretariat for being considerate of delegates with special needs.

Dodoma. Fourteen-year-old Ekilia Elias has proved not only to her school but the entire division that disability is not inability. The Standard Seven pupil at Buigiri School for the blind in Chamwino district in Dodoma region, is a star in her own right--admired by teachers and envied by fellow pupils--blind and non-blind—for her unmatched academic prowess.

>Children living with disabilities often fall victim to all manner of stereotypes, and when the disability in question is mental, the sufferers find themselves at the bottom of the priority list.

An estimated 500,000 disabled children are being excluded from South Africa's education system, international pressure group Human Rights Watch says.

People with disabilities are still stigmatised in many pastoralist communities whereby basic needs for children including education are not among their priorities, it was observed here recently.

Throughout human history, technology has shaped the way people live. Information and communications technologies, in particular, have impacted a lot of people’s daily lives.

Disabled want closer support
Daily News
THE Association of Disabled People in Katavi Region has called upon District and Municipal Councils in the country to allocate funds in their budgets to support the poor families of disabled people so that they do not die for failure to meet medical costs.