Segun Awofadeji
9 November 2009
Bauchi — Challenge Your Disability Initiative (CYDI), a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Bauchi has said over 300 destitutes undergoing various skills acquisition training at the centre were been fed monthly with N450, 000.
The initiator and founder of the project, Hajiya Abiodun Yuguda, disclosed this while taking journalists round the workshop to show them the ability in disability in the society and how they can also contribute to the economic growth, saying most of CYDI products are being exported and local market have already been secured where they sell their products at encouraging profit.
She lamented that the leadership at the local level pay less attention to the plight of the people especially the physically challenged in the society as several efforts made by her to get the consent of the local government chairmen to introduce similar workshop proved abortive due to their non challant attitude.
According to her, the organizations have several partners and sponsors who have concern for the less privileged but expressed worries that the people of the state are not grapping this golden opportunity that has come to their door step instead they preferred hawking.She stated that, the Challenge Your Disability Initiative have many departments includes welding for the cripple, carpeting for the blind, tailoring for the deaf, bits for the female deaf, blind school and their children and dying departments
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