Tanzania: Disability Is Not Inability, Tanzanians Told

TANZANIANS have been urged to empower people with disabilities and respect their dignity to ensure full and equal participation of the group in all spheres of society.

"In most cases, people have been thinking that empowering people with disabilities is to provide them with money, but what these people need most is to be empowered, especially psychologically," said Maria Sarungi, the Director of Compass Communications during the commemoration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD).

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