Accra, Aug 12, GNA – About 80 physically challenged entrepreneurs in the Greater Accra region have benefited from a capacity-building programme under the Economic Empowerment project for Persons with Disability (PWD).

The beneficiaries at the MSME clinic were taken through modules to improve their business management skills and also offered the opportunity to interact with representatives from key private sector institutions in the finance and commerce space.

The Economic Empowerment Programme, funded by Sightsavers International, is aimed at supporting PWDs, who are either job seekers or entrepreneurs to respectively have gainful employment or expand their business operations through capacity building, access to markets and credit facilities.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Madam Grace Akua Mahmood, Programme Officer for the Project, said it was important for PWDs to participate, benefit and contribute to the development of the country through effective participation in employment.

She said the design of the economic empowerment project was based on the outcome of a survey that highlighted the gaps that existed in the employment of persons with disabilities.

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