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The Atebubu-Amantin Municipal Assembly has presented business start-up kits to people with disabilities in the municipality.

About 104 people with different categories of disabilities, received items ranging from deep freezer, hairdryers, motorcycles and fertilizers, corn mail machines, containers, provisions, fufu pounding machines, etc.

Speaking at the occasion, Hon. Edward Owusu, the Municipal Chief Executive, disclosed that the Assembly had already given out health support, educational sponsorship, and vocational training to people with disabilities in the 1st phase of the presentation.

According to him, the items were procured with their (the physically challenged) 3% share of the District Assembly Common Fund.

He noted that such items will go a long way to expose them to economic ventures and equip them to set up other businesses to improve their standards of living.

He charged the beneficiaries to prove their critics wrong by making judicious use of the equipment and asked them to keep to a high standard of maintenance in order to prolong the life span of the equipment.

He, therefore, gave the assurance of the Assembly’s continuous support to people with disabilities (PWDs) and the marginalized in the municipality to bridge the disparity in wealth and improve quality of life.

Explaining why the government has seized the issuance of tabletop pay cheques to people with disabilities across the country, Hon. Kofi Amoakohene the member of parliament (MP) for Atebubu-Amantin/Bono East regional minister, said the government under the leadership of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, is poised to providing sustainable jobs to people with disabilities with the aim of alleviating poverty among the physically challenged, hence a paradigm shift into a more productive and sustainable arena of economic empowerment through the provision of the start-up kits for each physically challenged person.

Mr.Bukari Emmanuel, the Atebubu-Amantin social welfare director, advised the beneficiaries to make good use of the items to help them contribute significantly to the development of mother Ghana.