Disability is not a choice
we are left to make, but an irrevocable circumstance dictated either by birth
or in the journey through life. Disability is a reality we cannot run away from
in our society. It stares at us daily as we interact with others; either in the
market place, worship houses, schools, sports centers and even in less facial
mediums like internet.
World Health
Organization estimate that 15% of world population are in one way or another disabled.
That means over 1 billion of 7 billion people living in the world are disabled.
Extrapolating from
above, we can conveniently estimate that more than 14 million Nigerians are
disabled. That is huge!
In our peculiarity
of low awareness; low sensitization and immunization; non-existent emergency
services; expensive/ill-equipped medical facilities; mistrust and general insecurity;
dilapidated transportation and social infrastructures, it is not surprising
that hundreds of people are daily disabled in Nigeria. Worse still, no notable efforts
are made by government, NGOs or individuals to alleviate the suffering of
these individuals. Instead of rendering help, society abandons these people and
rather sees them as outcast.
This blog is aimed
at educating the society on causes of disability, conditions, management and
acceptable relationships with disabled people.
It will publish latest
news, information, discoveries and breakthroughs on disability from around the
world. As a motivational page, individuals that have excelled despite
disability will be featured.
This blog in conscientizing
society, will also galvanize efforts toward demanding acceptable relationship from
society and fulfillment of government obligations to the disabled people in our
society. .
Disability is not a
curse but a condition which should be empathized with to enable individuals lead
fulfilling lives.
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