4 December 2007
Bujumbura — The World celebrated the international day for disabled persons today. In Burundi, the government postponed the celebrations until the end of the week. This day that carries the slogan of â-šdecent jobs to handicapped persons" arrives while the number of disabled persons has increased in Burundi due to the war that spanned for 13 years.
Lots need to be done for the handicapped in a bid to meet this slogan. Although the government has passed a bill granting some rights to the disabled, many handicapped persons are seen begging on all the streets of Bujumbura. The central market of Bujumbura has become the meeting point of many physically disabled who come together to beg. The decline of morals has now caused a new phenomenon that exacerbates the begging. Some people in the city of Bujumbura hire disabled persons and roam with them in the streets of Bujumbura begging for assistance.
The chairman of the confederations of associations of handicapped people, Claver Seberege, says that it is still difficult for handicapped persons to have â-šdecent jobs because their disabilities prevent them from getting enough knowledge."
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