As COVID-19 is ravaging the world, People with disabilities are most hit in terms of the impact on them economically, among people with disabilities, women with disabilities are more at the receiving end.
It is based on the challenges women with disabilities are facing occasioned by the lockdown that Network for Disabled Women, an NGOs for women with disabilities in Nigeria with the support of ACTION AID and Canadian Embassy distributed food items to indigent women with disabilities in the FCT.
Lois Auta, the leader of the group in a chat with The Qualitative Magazine said that the idea behind the project is to cushion the effect of the lockdown on these indigent women with disabilities. She reminded that a woman with disability suffer multiple discrimination and that always put women with disabilities at disadvantage especially in a time like this. She thanked the donors for coming to the aid of women with disabilities at this trying time and also having faith on the organization to reach out to these women.
The Qualitative Magazine learnt that 85 indigent women with disabilities benefited from this distribution exercise by receiving a cartoon of Indomie noodles each.
The beneficiaries were elated by the gestures and they appreciated Lois Auta for the good works, attracting help for women with disabilities is a great fit.
See some pictures of the distribution exercise:
