International Day of Disabled persons was proclaimed in 1992 by the UN General Assembly. The theme for 2017 is “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient society for all”. At Faytex, we are an equal opportunity employer and so we were asked to speak at the Stakeholder Consultation on Ghana’s draft report on the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UNCRPD) at the Ghana Press Center in Accra. Officially, there are 737000 disabled persons in Ghana, unofficially this number is most likely to be threefold.

Mr. Kwamena Dadzie Dennis, Executive Secretary of National Council on persons with disability (NCPD) opened the session. The chairman took all stockholders through the draft report based on a review of the actual execution of the 1992 constitution. We on the other hand presented stakeholders such as ‘Center for the employment for people with disabilities’, 'Ghana society of physically disabled’, 'NCDP’, 'Department of Social Welfare’ and 'Ghana Blind Union' with business opportunities that we have available for persons with disabilities in Ghana. We have created a new social project called making “The Disabled - Able" that will allow disabled persons to become a faytex distributor which allows them in return to become a small business owner.

Through a sign language interpreter, the deaf could easily follow all that was discussed