National Fund for the Disabled of Kenya (NFDK) has called for public-private partnerships towards empowerment of persons living with disabilities (PWDS) to enhance, enable and engage them economically to acquire decent skills and income so as to reduce their poverty.
NFDK Trustee Dr Julia Ojiambo noted that there was a growing need for PWDs to get education assistance, assistive technologies and devices, infrastructure and equipment grants to help them successfully run their start-ups and increase their employability prospects.
She stated that relevant agencies at County and National Government levels, donors, corporates and religious institutions, among others, should prioritize encouraging, promoting and supporting PWDs to become self-employed and develop their entrepreneurial capacity to make them economically independent and self-reliant.
Dr Ojiambo indicated that NFDK had taken a lead role in economically empowering PWDs by giving them free of charge tools of trade such as shoe-making and repair kits, sewing machines, welding equipment, hairdressing machinery, farming implements, and carpentry tools, among others.
