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Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>A citizen of Britain, Ellie Cole, of the University College\u2014London, is carrying out research on Liberian disabled people battling Coronavirus (COVID-19)<\/p>\n

She arrived into the West African Country on the 28th of October, 2022.<\/p>\n

During her deliberation at Bella Casa on the 16th December she spoke about three thematic areas: Health, Restriction, and Transportation. ^you might want to change this a bit as you haven\u2019t introduced the exhibition yet.<\/p>\n

On health, the Researcher and her hosts looked at health-related needs: access and availability of services, as well as negative attitudes of health workers. Much of their focus was on fear of stigma. inability to access healthcare, and psychosocial issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore coming to your Country, I got information from here, which indicated that psychological disabilities issue heightened through lack of medication, fear of going to clinics, attitudes of health workers,\u201d the Briton told her guests at the Bella Casa Hotel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact of covid is causing other health problems \u2013 malaria. Example, one female with disabilities felt that she could not go to the hospital because people would think she had Covid,\u201d she gave another example.<\/p>\n

During experience-sharing many of the disabled Liberians talked about their great fear of Covid, as, some added, was due to their increased vulnerability to the virus.<\/p>\n

\u201cExperience of Ebola was a triggering event, particularly for psychosocial issues with persons with disabilities. But many felt equipped after Ebola the experience. They knew what to do and how to properly combat the disease,\u201d she said during the interview by this writer.<\/p>\n

Restrictions, difficult for all Liberians, but particularly for these people,\u201d the British Researcher said further during the interview.<\/p>\n

On Social Distancing (Government-mandated eight-foot distance between two persons in a public area), some of the visually impaired (blind) participants of the interactive sessions at NUOD told the Briton about their pains during the peak of the Covid-19 hit against Liberia. They lamented their not having the eyes to \u201csee\u201d whether they were in the Government-mandated distance, while some decried sighted persons\u2019 refusal to keep the visually impaired persons in the radius.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore coming to your Country, some persons had told me, the greater risk being encountered by some caregivers doing their responsibilities before 3pm. Some persons told me, people with hearing impairments were beaten during curfew time as they had not received information about the curfew.<\/p>\n

For her main topic for the Research, Food, and Food Security, the Briton said, she had been informed (prior to her coming to Liberia) that many disabled families did receive the Government\u2019s food supplies, named \u201cStimulus Package\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been informed NUOD had put an SOS appeal on the radio and supplies arrived to support their members. Related to this is livelihoods.<\/p>\n

During the Liberians\u2019 inputs in the discussion, participants talked about impacts of the Covid-19 on the disabled people\u2019s community: loss of jobs, having to hustle and begging for donations to feed their family.<\/p>\n

On the subtopic, Transport and movement, the many persons in the body of disabled persons talked about the huge challenge for disabled people, especially the visually impaired persons. Some of the problems recalled were taxi drivers\u2019 refusal to pick up disabled persons who had who waved for a moving taxi to stop for them.<\/p>\n

All the disabled participants lamented on majority of moving vehicles operators\u2019 refusal to stop for blind people to cross the road during their food-search tours.<\/p>\n

People with disabilities appealed to the Government and private caregivers to practically show respect to the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy research in Liberia is titled \u201cExploring the comparative experience of people with disabilities of the COVID-19 and Ebola emergency health responses\u201d, focusing exclusively Liberia\u2019s disabled community\u2019s experience during the Corona Virus and Ebola outbreaks in the Country,\u201d Researcher Ellie Cole said to this writer during an exclusive interview. \u201cPart of my research is a photovoice. photovoice is a form of participatory research and gives people cameras to take photos of their experience and as a group discuss the images and what it means to them. The photovoice project culminated in a photo exhibition, which was at Bella Casa Hotel on Friday, 16th of December.<\/p>\n

Each participant selected one photo from all of the photos taken over the entire project and wrote a caption explaining the photo and sharing their experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibition showcased the talent of the participants, but also their experiences, particularly around the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibition was a great success and over 70 people came. I am delighted with how well it all went,\u201d she said<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cphotovoice is a really powerful way for people to have their voices heard and people with disabilities in Liberia their voices often go unheard and their opinions are not considered. I hope that the exhibition went some way to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n

This writer\u2019s interview with the British Researcher was at the Head Office of the National Union of Organizations of the Disabled (NUOD) on 9th Street, Sinkor, Monrovia, December 19, 2022. \u201cI am working through NUOD as my Liberian organizational partner on this project,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The Briton said her research focuses much on COVID-related \u201crestriction\u201d Government placed on Liberians with disabilities to prevent spread of the virus \u2014like done to other citizens, as well as foreigners, with no physical disability.<\/p>\n

\u201cVisually impaired persons, as well as other disabled persons living with disabilities, are the worst hit by COVID-19, worsened by Government- imposed movement-restriction aimed at stopping spread of the virus,\u201d Madam Cole said.<\/p>\n

She said the research is part of her Ph.D obtaining project. \u201cI\u2019m on my Ph.D degree at the University College London. My research was funded by a research-funding Institution, named Economic and Social Research Control, ESRC. I expressed, through writing, my interest of doing the research in Liberia; They agreed, provided the research funding, so I am in this Country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her Liberian partner on this project is Jamesetta Wahblo Seton, a Lecturer at the University of Liberia, the Briton disclosed during the interview by this writer.<\/p>\n

\u201cMadam Seton helped to facilitate the photovoice sessions and assists me on interviews of the disabled persons,\u201d she told this writer.<\/p>\n

On the 16th of December, she held an interactive session with some members of the Disability Community at the Bella Casa Hotel, Sinkor, Monrovia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was overwhelmed by the participants\u2019 stories about how they survived during the peak of the COVID-19\u2019s attack against the Liberian populace,\u201d Researcher Cole said to me during interview after the interactive session.<\/p>\n

Another part of the research will be life-history interviews with by disabled persons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibited photos were remarkable,\u201d the Researcher said and showed this writer some of the Liberian disabled parsons\u2019 photos she had snapped with her mobile phone. Some of the photos were of disabled people standing in front of their houses, disabled photographer\u2019s colleagues sitting in wheelchairs, public buildings, and many different scenes. \u201cLiberia\u2019s disabled people are talented; their talents should be promoted by the Government or persons in the private sector,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The British Researcher said, she had done other researches in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Kenya, and Zambia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis visit is about my fifth time in Liberia, beginning from the Ebola time in 2015,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

On the writer\u2019s question of reception from her disabled guests, as well as the general Liberian public, the foreign Researcher declared: \u201cHighly hospitable! I am overwhelmed by the hospitality of my disabled Liberian hosts and non-disabled people I have met during my research in this West African Country,\u201d she narrated, smiled and chuckled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be back in February, 2023,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

I spoke with one of the caregivers of Liberia\u2019s disability community as part of this story.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy caregiving is through documentation of all the activities of the disabled community, through the National Union of Organizations of the Disabled, NUOD. I\u2019m NUOD\u2019s Secretary and Accountant,\u201d Madam Evelyn Deh told me at her office December 19, 2022.<\/p>\n

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