By Nyima Sillah
A right group has launched rights awareness campaign for children with disability that seeks to creating societal understanding on people with disability especially teenagers.
Love by force on Tuesday held the launch of campaign programs at Methodist school, where participants were taught on some alienable rights of people with disability and how society should respect their rights, hoping reach out to the entire country.
The group’s executive officer Pa Modou Badgie, who spoke at the launch said: “we want to create something that will give awareness so that the whole society will see them, recognize them and try to help them together.”
Daddy Jallow program coordinator of the group, said part of their plans is engaging government on means of strengthening rights of people with disability, adding we will engage the ministry to have a collaboration with them.
He however, lamented over lack of support saying “we have challenges that have to do with funding and bringing people on board and our biggest dream is to target the entire Gambia but we need to build a structure and have a stable background.”
Lucy Sarfo, head teacher of Methodist said expressed dismay, saying “these children are marginalized and sometimes that can make the parents get very frustrate because their children are different from other people’s children.”
According to her, parents of such disability kids suffer due to family, friends and society critics because they gave birth to such kids also it all has to do with stigma and ignorance in the society.