Men should cooperate with their wives to raise children who are born with disabilities instead of abandoning them and leaving them to women alone.
The call was given yesterday at the Yatima Idoga hall in Mufindi district by a trainer and Psychologist Anastazia Godfrey while giving a three-day training to 170 parents living with children and young people with disabilities in Mufindi district in Iringa region.
She said that, there is a misconception among some men when their wives gives birth to children with disabilities that they run away from the family and leave the responsibility of raising a disabled child to women, which is not good because a disabled child is same like any other and should be given all rights including his right to be valued and his parents.
She added that, the happiness of the family includes not discriminating against the children and the family that runs away or hides the child with disabilities should be strongly reprimanded because continuing to turn a blind eye to all those who stigmatize children with disabilities is increasing the magnitude of the problem of children with disabilities lacking various opportunities including education.
"Parents should support the challenges they encounter in the family including raising children with disabilities by seeing the challenges of raising a child with disabilities as normal for him." Added Anastazia
She said that having a child with a disability is a mistake in the family but it is God's plans and a child with a disability has a great potential to be a help in the community around him and the Nation as a whole.
Thus she sldo added that through the training, it is a great expectation to see more education continue to be provided so that children with disabilities in the Mufindi district continue to be exposed to get various social opportunities.
A Parent, Ester Ngolo from the village of Iyegea, said that through the training she has found the light of what to do in a care of her child with a disability because at the beginning she did not have the education to care for her child so now she will go to convey that knowledge to those around her including parents who live with the disabled who have not had the opportunity of training.
The project manager of YAM, Zilpa Mgeni said that the project is being run in collaboration with the government and so they thank the government for showing a high level of cooperation with their project which in general has a great support for young people and children with disabilities in Mufindi district especially Ihanu ward, Mdabulo and Luhunga where the project works in 16 villages of those Wards.
"My team and I have seen that this project is helping because we have realized that there is a big change since we started identifying them because in the beginning they did not believe that they could do business, but after receiving training in psychology and entrepreneurship they themselves have admitted that they can do something". said Zilpa
She also asked the government to provide more cooperation, especially by helping to obtain loans for people with disabilities to help people with them start various developmental projects.
Speaking about the benefits of this training, the project manager of Youth Agency Mufindi (YAM) Zilpa said the aim of the training is to enable the group of parents and guardians who live with young people and children with disabilities to get education in raising a family without stigmatizing the children.
She said that the project will benefit more than 770 including 150 children with disabilities and that, the YAM project is for four years from the year 2021/2024 has been funded by the government of Finland under its Deaconess institution with the cooperation of the government of Tanzania under the district council of Mufindi and the Foxes Community and Wild Life Conservation Institute. (FCWC)
.jpg)
0 Comments