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Minister, residents march to celebrate Persons with Disabilities Day in Iganga

GEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior Correspondent by GEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior Correspondent
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Ms Mutuuzo Peace Regis, the Minister of State for Gender and Culture Affairs matching with some of the disabled persons in Iganga on Tuesday (PHOTO/Courtesy).

KAMPALA – The Minister of State for Gender and Culture Affairs, Ms Mutuuzo Peace Regis, on Wednesday morning presided over celebrations to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Iganga Municipal Council Primary School in Iganga town.

The event started with a procession through Iganga town to raise awareness about issues affecting the Disability fraternity. This year’s celebrations are being held under the theme: “Promoting Disability Inclusive Programming for an Accessible Future”

The day is commemorated to create awareness on the importance of promoting equality and full participation of Persons with Disabilities in social life as well as development.

According to the National Housing and Population Census of 2014, 12.4% of the entire population of Uganda are Persons with Disabilities. This translates to about 4.8 million people.

The Uganda Functional Difficulties Survey which was conducted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in 2017 established that 17 percent of adults, seven percent of children aged 5 to 17 years and four percent of children aged 2 to 4 years had a disability.

The study further revealed that for every type of Disability, prevalence was highest among the adults, which implies that disability increases with age.

The study identifed key causes of Disability among adults as; accidents at home, malaria and road traffic accidents.

For children 2-17 years the common causes are; congenital (from birth) and sickness especially malaria and measles.

At today’s event, the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development will be launching the guidelines for the National Special Grant for Persons with Disabilities. Money will go to Persons with Disabilities in groups for enterprise start-ups and growth.

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