A comprehensive program for empowerment of persons with disabilities and inclusive access to basic services of health and education is underway within Andek Ngie municipality in compliance with the government policy of inclusion into the mainstream of persons with impairments.
The program includes sensitization, mobilization and identification of persons living with disability within Andek Ngie municipality (exclusively).
The promotion of inclusion relating to people living with disabilities in the Council’s mandate through the focal person is identifying Andek Ngie municipal people living with disabilities, the various forms of disability, their degree and how they manifest with a change of mindset and perception towards people living with disabilities.
The focal person of Andek council has been through Achang to other communities within Andek Ngie Municipality exclusively and the conditions of persons living with disabilities is not only worrying, disturbing, troubling but precarious and needs urgent attention. More than 40 percent cases were profound who couldn’t do anything at all and have never had any assistance from any body. They have just been abandoned to themselves and left in the hands of mercy as you as the pictures depict below from A cripple from 2yrs and now 28yrs being a mother of 3 children.
For the purpose of information, Section 2, paragraph 2, of Law no,2010/002 of 13 April 2018, gives us a clear definition of persons with disabilities
- Any person who is unable to fulfill by themselves all or part the requirements of normal person or social life, as a result of physical or mental disability be it of birth or otherwise.
- Deficiency, any Loss or impairments of a psychological, physiological or anatomic function of structure:
- Inability,any temporary, partial or total lost of the capacity to carry out any activity in a given manner or within the limits considered as normal for a human being.
The above conditions have four degree;
1.Mild
2.Moderate
3 Severe
4 Profound
Law N°. 2010/002 of 13 April 2010 on the protection and promotion of persons with disabilities.
1. GENERAL PROVISIONS:
This law relates to the protection and welfare of persons with disabilities and in this respect, it aims at:
1. The prevention of disability
2. social economy and psychological rehabilitation and integration of persons with disabilities
3. promotion of solidarity in favor of person with disabilities and the mandate of the council.
Checkout FIXING THE PROCEDURES FOR THE APPLICATION OF LAW N° 2010/002 OF 13 APRIL 2010 ON THE PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN CAMEROON to learn more about the law.