Disbaled Need Jobs, Not Charity
By: Ramjit
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 (Bernama)-- The disabled in the country need decent
jobs and business opportunities rather than charity, donations and handouts, according to a disabled leader.President of the Independent Living and Training Centre (ILTC) G. Francis Siva said most of the disabled people very capable and talented and needed the right guidance and incentive to live independently.
Francis who runs a well equipped training centre for the disabled in Rawang near here, lost the use of his lower extremities due to an accident.
He said it was the norm in Malaysian society to give donations and handouts to the disabled.
While this was praiseworthy, it was nevertheless not effective in overcoming the challeges faced by the handicapped.Francis pointed that the disabled were people with dignity and wanted to contribute to the country's development.
On the ILTC, he said that since its inception eight years ago, the centre had trained some 120 people who were now leading normal live with their families.
The cost of running the centre was around RM96,000 per year and it received about RM30,000 annual grant from the government.
The services provided by the centre included counselling and motivation, providing disability information and advice, computer training, handicraft making and other self-development programmes.
BERNAMA
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