By Saykpekpo Innis, Buchanan
To buttress the saying that “disability is not inability,” the visually impaired in Liberia’s port city of Buchanan are begging for assistance to open a skills training school.
Robert Kpadoe, the County Coordinator of the Christian Association of the Blind (CAB) in Buchanan is calling on NGOs, Companies and stakeholders to help them with some carpentry materials to establish a trade school for members of the institution in Grand Bassa County.
According to him, members of his association are willing to learn trade to help empower themselves, but they are lack of support to start the process.
Kpadoe told this reporter that they are tired of begging in the streets daily and they w want to acquire skills training in the areas of carpentry, masonry, soap making among others to improve their lives.
He said if the blind people are given the opportunity to acquire such knowledge, they will be able to feed themselves, support their families and at the same time contribute to the growth and development of Liberia.
The head of the CAB Buchanan office the association comprises professional carpenters and they would be used to train their fellow blind people in the county.
Kpadoe said some the materials for the vocational school include hammer, pingalay, sow, screw, square, nail, among others.