{"id":92757,"date":"2015-02-19T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T10:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=92757"},"modified":"2015-02-19T10:46:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T10:46:27","slug":"photos-ngo-supports-30-mentally-challenged-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/02\/photos-ngo-supports-30-mentally-challenged-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"[Photos] NGO supports 30 mentally-challenged persons"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tamale based local non-governmental organization called Gub-Katimali has doled out GHC5, 000.00 donor support to 30 stabilized mental ill people and their caretakers in the Sagnarigu District of the Northern Region.<\/p>\n
Another NGO called Basic Needs sourced funding from the Department for International Development (UK) for onward disbursement to the beneficiaries which is non-refundable.<\/p>\n
As a revolving fund, the beneficiaries drawn from the Sagnarigu Gnunpagi Osuhi self help association received between GHC100.00 to GHC 300.00.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Gub-Katimali in collaboration with Basic Needs has procured sewing machines for distribution to some members of the group upon their request.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n The stimulus packages are meant to empower the beneficiaries\u2019 manpower skills and entrepreneurship. He said his organization earlier gave two goats each to about 30 members of the group to boost animal husbandry.<\/p>\n He said plans were afoot to replicate the project in the entire 26 districts of the Northern Region.
\nExecutive Director of Gub-Katimali, Sheikh Yakubu Abdul Karim condemned the practice of pushing stabilized mental ill children into begging for alms rather than sending them to school to become responsible citizens.<\/p>\n
\nAccording to him, the project which started about 13 years ago gained some successes.<\/p>\n