GNAD schools the Deaf on the importance of education
The Northern Region branch of the Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) has organised a day s programme on the importance of formal education for the deaf in Karaga. The programme was part of the Association s plans to promote and advocate social inclusion by providing basic knowledge to participants in deaf-related issues and to establish a Deaf Association in the Karaga District. Mr Sumani Bapio Ibrahim, the Northern Regional President of GNAD, said there was a school for the deaf in a neighbouring town yet many of them refuse to attend because they do not see the need to.
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The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations (MELR) is engaged in broad-based consultations with various groups, including Persons With Disability (PWDs), towards amendment of the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651).
So far, the ministry has engaged 11 groups with the aim of collecting data on the challenges, deficiencies, ambiguities, among others, that PWDs face when it comes to applying, implementing and enforcing labour laws.
The development has presented the ministry with the opportunity to justify the review of the act.
The groups involved are the Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled, the Ghana Association of Persons with Albinism, the Ghana Burns Survivors Foundation, the Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) and the National Council for Persons with Disability (NCPD).