River State Steps Up Supports For Physically Challenged People

The government of River State has stepped up its efforts to make life bearable for the physically challenged people in the state.

Speaking at an interactive session which was a side event of the innaguration of the River State Women Association, Atlanta Chapter at Embassy Suite Hotel on Saturday, Dame Judith Amaechi, wife of the Executive Governor of the state, said that one of the passionate areas where the state government is interested in is the physically challenged stuff.

Mrs Amaechi, founder of the Empowerment Support Initiative {ESI} added that the government had provided several amenities for the physically challenged persons in the state.

Speaking further, she told the audience that lots of wheel chairs and other equipments required to assist the physically challenged people in the state had been given out by the Rotimi Amaechi-led administration in the state.

She also noted that the issue of physically challenged is a critical one, stressing that there are some people in the state who do not have any physical defect but they still look like physically challenged persons.

The wife of River state governor pressed further that the government will not relent in its efforts to make the physically challenged persons in the state have a sense of belonging.

She however noted that her Non-Governmental Organisation, the Empowerment Support Initiative {ESI} will also do everything to complement the efforts of the state government in the area of the physically challenged people.

Speaking on the rights of the children in the state, Mrs Amaechi said that her NGO had initiated a movement for the domestication of the Child's Right Act in the state and as well organized sensitization programmes at the various Local Government Areas on the girl-child education.