By Hassana Yakubu
February 13, 2021
Valentine : Persons with disabilities seek love
The Joint Association of Persons with Disabilities Kaduna Chapter Women wing has seek love for disabled women in the country.
Mrs Esther Nyam ,The leader women wing for person with disabilities said that disabled women and girls were faced with a lot of challenges when its come to issue of getting life partners.
She said that the challenges faced by the women with disability have affected their emotional psychological and mental state.
Nyam said this during a progamme organised by the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD) Women Wing Kaduna.
The programme was organised by JONAPWD in collaboration with TWIM (The Wonders in Me) Beyond the Border of Disability Initiatives.
According to her, February 14 is celebrated all over the world as a day of love, lovers commitment and dedication to a life of emotional partnership.
She said that this has become a reverse in the case of disabled women most especially in Africa and underdeveloped communities who still live in traditional beliefs and taboo due to ignorance and illiteracy.
Nyam said that some people see disabled women as burden with the belief that they cannot marry the man of their dreams and have happy homes.
On his part, Malam Rilwanu Mohammed, the National President Association of the Physically Challenge, said the physically challenge were usually faced with a lot of challenges most especially their women.
Mohammed said that there was need for able persons to get married to women with disabilities.
He said the essence of the programme was to advocate that able persons should consider marrying disable women.
” Love inclusiveness in the world of love discrimination does not exist, “he said
The Director Kaduna Rehabilitation Board, Alhaji Aliyu Yassai commended the organisers of the programme for the initiative.
Yakasai represented by Mr Silas Dogara, a staff of the board said love does not know disability and encouraged the organisers to come up with trustful deliberations that would encourage able men to marry women with disabilities.
Pastor Yohanna Buru of Christ Intercessory and Intervention Ministry, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna while speaking on the challenges faced by disabled communities said that stigmatisation has relegated the women with disabilities and this has also marginalise them.
Buru called on both religious leaders to come in “This are human beings and are people like us, there is ability in disability, ”he said.
He stressed the need for all to do the right thing by considering them important in the society without any stigma.
According to him, both religions teaches us the importance of treating all human beings as one
He also called on the Imans and Pastors to go to their places of worship, preach to their followers to see the need of loving the disabled person.