On Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of May, 2019, Beautiful Gate Handicapped People Centre, Jos headed by renowned politician with disability Ayuba Burki Gufwan organized a reach out programme in Jigawa state where they donated tricycles to over 65 persons with disabilities. The programme took place at Emir’s palace Kazaure on Saturday while on Sunday, it took place at Gumel Emirate Foundation Secretariat, Gumel, Jigawa state. The success of the programme in jigawa state was ensured by Hon. Adamu Shaibu who identified and organized the beneficiaries.
Hon. Shaibu is a former state house assembly member of Jigawa state. He is the first person with disabilities in Jigawa state to be elected into the Jigawa state House of Assembly. He started work with the Centre in 2011 when he was still in the State House of Assembly. Basically, he coordinates and organizes the activities of the centre in Jigawa state.
Beautiful Gate Handicapped People Centre with the support of some churches in USA engaged about 65people with disabilities who are into the production of tricycles of different types and other mobility aids. This centre do reach to all persons with disabilities both Muslims and Christians and they do give out different kinds of mobility aids, wheelchairs, crutches, white canes for the blind, artificial limbs for the amputees. The reach out presentations are of different levels, as at now, they have visited 28 states out of 36 states of the Federation.
The presentations are done in States, Emirates, Local governments and under associations. Their targets are PWDs who need tricycles or wheelchairs to ease their movement to school and work, they engage some PWDs in skill acquisition and provide small buses to some PWDs to ease their sufferings. As at now, the Centre have given out over 18,000 tricycles and wheelchairs, a good number of white canes, crutches etc to PWDs across the country.
The centre is being funded by many churches in USA, the person overseeing the centre in Nigeria who always visit in some events on their behalf is Dr. Ron Rice. Ayuba Burki Gufwan, a graduate of Law in University of Jos and a person with disability is their agent in Nigeria and he coordinates the day to day running of the centre.
