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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Sudan<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>South Sudan\u2019s persons with disability joined the rest of the world to mark the start of the International Deaf Awareness Week to promote the positive aspects of disability and encourage social inclusion.<\/p>\n

The awareness week will focus on promoting the positive aspects of deafness, encouraging social inclusion, and raising awareness of the organizations that support those with disabilities.<\/p>\n

The theme of this year\u2019s celebrations is \u201cCelebrating Thriving Deaf Community\u201d. It is aimed at ensuring that persons with disability are not mistreated as well as educating the public to leave no one behind and work together for social inclusion.<\/p>\n

Yar Telar Deng, a lawmaker representing Yirol West in the National Parliament stressed the need to establish enterprise development funds for persons with disabilities to create employment opportunities for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Revitalized Peace Agreement gives women enterprise funds and gives youth enterprise development funds but it does not give enterprise funds for people with disabilities. Let\u2019s have something like that for them so that they will be able to access loans and be empowered financially,\u201d Yar said during the International Deaf Awareness Week in Juba on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Modi Bage Mabaraza, Executive Director of Youth Women Christians Association (YWCA) acknowledged the sponsors for the great work done in mobilizing people to respect and support the persons with disability.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came to realize on many occasions that persons with disability are paid less attention to and they are not given opportunities in many areas because of the fact that they are disabled,\u201d Mabaraza said.<\/p>\n

Mabaraze urged the government to create programs that will support people living with disability. \u201cWe would urge our government to join us to support these kinds of initiatives and these kind people so that we can be able to achieve our goal of leaving no one behind,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Josephine Kida, Executive Director for South Sudan National Deaf Children and Youth (SSNDCY) said Persons with Disability undergo challenges such as stigma, inadequate opportunities in the mainstream life and rampant discrimination, which has pushed them into the jaws of poverty.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe persons with disabilities are not respected. People have not been focusing on us,\u201d Kida said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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