Bauchi Agency Partners NGO, Trains Persons with Disability on Safety Measures


The Bauchi State Agency for Persons with disabilities has in collaboration with a Nongovernmental Organization Kennedy – Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Association of Nigeria has organized a one-day training on accessing basic security and safety measures for persons with disabilities.

The one-day program held at Destination Hotel Bauchi drew over 100 persons with disabilities from various local governments of the state, ministries, NGOs and the media.

In her keynote address, the Executive Secretary of the Agency in Bauchi State Mrs. Briska Jouron stated that the Bauchi state government has supported persons with disabilities in different ways, adding that the State was the first state to create an agency for people with special needs.

“In this today’s occasion, the Bauchi state government is in hundred per cent support and we thank the organizers of the program. We are fully supporting the program in order to bridge the common gaps existing between the disabled and the general public. So want the participants to the extent the message to their respective communities”, she said.

Mrs Jauron said that the state government has also completed a plan for the provision of housing program mainly for persons with disabilities, adding that, “Bauchi state government has also given scholarship to over 100 persons with disabilities currently studying in Lagos and gives N10000 allowance each”.

The representative of the Kennedy – Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Association of Nigeria KL-YAAN in Bauchi State Mr Mamani Bitrus Moresu said the organization started operating in Bauchi in 2006 with many achievements to its credit.

“We organized the seminar after observing that disabled persons are usually left behind in terms of communication and other security and safety measures; so that bring them closer to know how to protect themselves”, he stated.

He said the objective of the US-based NGO is to provide young Nigerian students from predominantly Muslim communities as well as those from historically disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to enhance their understanding of the American society, its people, institutions, values and culture.

The program targets Senior Secondary school students who travel to the U.S. for one academic year and return home to join their colleagues at the Senior Secondary III level to complete their school certificate program.

Alhamdu Yakubu, a person with hearing difficulties described the training as timely, adding it was a bad experience for many of them during the Covid-19 partial lockdown in Bauchi.

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