{"id":69343,"date":"2024-03-21T18:24:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=69343"},"modified":"2024-03-21T17:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:40:01","slug":"pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service","title":{"rendered":"PWDs call for inclusivity in public service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span><b>Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) under their umbrella We Too Can (Naffe Tusobola) have urged the government to prioritise inclusive employment opportunities in all sectors.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Executive Director of We Too Can, Ms Aisha Matovu told journalists Wednesday that as PWDs, they want inclusive employment status since they also can favourably compete with any other Ugandans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing disabled does not mean that even the brains are disabled, we want to see that we can access the basic needs like other Ugandans, we have PWDs who are professionals but they are left out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Matovu added that currently PWDs are left out of development and accessing government services because the communities think they are dependents who need full-time support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the government and religious leaders to come on board and prioritise the issues of PWDs in terms of development. PWDs have missed out on all the government programmes because they are ignorant about them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ibrahim Ssali, Moroccan Consulate in Uganda also President of the Mohammed VI Foundation in Uganda, said: \u201cDespite having challenges of operating in an economy which is grappling with Covid-19 pandemic effects, we are ready to support the needy from different categories through their respective groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that they have been following the We Too Can foundation and as a religious institution, they agreed to support them by providing food to the disabled Muslims from Kampala metropolitan during Ramadhan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Muhammed VI Foundation has learnt a lot from the PWDs and this initiative has helped the needy during Ramadhan since 2019 when Uganda became a member of the Foundation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Ssali applauded the We Too Can foundation for the work done saying that it\u2019s not easy to understand what others are doing to help the vulnerable people because they are experiencing several challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) under their umbrella We Too Can (Naffe Tusobola) have urged the government to prioritise inclusive employment opportunities in all sectors. The Executive Director of We Too Can, Ms Aisha Matovu told journalists Wednesday that as PWDs, they want inclusive employment status since they also can favourably compete with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":69341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-69343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PWDs call for inclusivity in public service - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) under their umbrella We Too Can (Naffe Tusobola) have urged the government to priori ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PWDs call for inclusivity in public service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) under their umbrella We Too Can (Naffe Tusobola) have urged the government to priori ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-21T18:24:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2024\/03\/sm_1711029926.869.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PWDs call for inclusivity in public service\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-21T18:24:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service\"},\"wordCount\":322,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2024\/03\/sm_1711029926.869.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pwds-call-for-inclusivity-in-public-service\",\"name\":\"PWDs call for inclusivity in public service - 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