Disability groups in Lagos Nigeria one of the important victory busy in the fight for equal chances so what are the challenges facing people with disabilities in the city. Maybe michael jr youre welcome to the show has already killed more than 2000 people and the fear is more would die if the break in the democratic republic of congo is not contained un head on to a new good tat is highlighting the crisis june a 3 day trip to the country he met with preston finished his acadia in tears has stressed the importance of security in the fight against the disease he says people must be allowed to move freely and to have access to Health Workers on sunday the terrorists. About Ebola Treatment Center he had this plea for all those affected a lot to not fit. I appeal to all those who were undergoing treatment and to all those who were healed you have to be our spokespersons. You have to talk to all the people you know or to all your friends all the people in your village or in your city. Told you that. For many months everyone has to be told if theres even the slightest suspicion. They have to come get checked. But then this is any doubt they have to undergo the same treatment you have already had. Now while the challenges communities are facing in the efforts to contain it is mistrust and misinformation some local people believe ebola is a death sentence so theyre not seeking treatment others accuse Health Workers of spreading the virus intentionally next report the efforts of widely. To set the record straight. And your name bill is about to do something that many in this town in eastern congo would consider courageous even finish. Hes on his way to take a mother and her child to the hospital even though both are showing symptoms of a bone. Most would shun such contact caring they may also contract the virus. But bill isnt afraid to. Jump up. So im not scared. Ive touched many a ball of patients gone theyve i am cured which means i cannot get infected again. This is the 2nd biggest outbreak of ebola in history and authorities are struggling to contain it spread one reason is that some locals are suspicious of the doctors trying to help them even accusing them of using thermometers to infect them this is jim main bill is on a mission to counter such stories he travels to local communities to promote understanding and to explain that a bowler can be cured with treatment. But many locals remain skeptical. Never in my life will i go to the hospital i want friends of mine went there in good health but they never made it out alive i dont trust them. I have suffered but im still here i was just like you i was like you know you see when you have a fever they take you there. You see thats what im cured by now transport people you couldnt transport once youve been cured you cant get the disease again. Despite some resistance bill says hes determined to keep spreading the information. It takes time for people to understand the disease im living proof of that. Now is to prevent needless death. We all want to be employed and make money to pay the bills but in most parts of africa finding a job can be such a headache especially for persons with disabilities social stigma discrimination and little or no efforts from government affecting me after a long fight by advocacy groups nigeria i could use its fast to discrimination law to improve Job Opportunities ability for People Living with disabilities in general our correspondence allowed you know reports from Lagos Nigeria and how persons with disabilities have been coping so far. 100 kilograms 114 these are the kinds of weights the power left at the lego stadium not wasting all of the athletes have a physical disability they need to lift at least double their weight to enter a competition kingsley new can only started weightlifting a few months ago but he already knows that this is his sport. Mr brown would be into i guess. Im going out there at the moment i doubt i would drop that off but its not just enough. To just go it isnt just about the sport newton is training for his 1st interstate competition if he wins he could earn a cash prize or even get a job through the state which has said it would employ Top Performing athletes. It is a tough city for people with disabilities for newton commuting to his training and his computer classes is like running an obstacle course. Most of the City Infrastructure isnt made for wheelchair uses his disability paskin from the bondage of not having to wait in line to pay for bus tickets but only the newest city buses old really made to accommodate him. Most of the some other part of. That is what mom would hear this song called because. Of the possible doctors. Which are difficult sometimes for the lookouts to get out sometimes well. So that. All these challenges are addressed by a new nigerian law that came into effect in january 2019 the law states that transport systems and all public buildings should be made more accessible but also sets a quota so that Companies Hire more individuals with disabilities you can doesnt think things will change. Clee. Unity is not good its something that some theres been a very fast now for example look at some big some policies because hes not put people in the. Clue including getting to the in the structure of the b. B. So now for them to change the o. B. D. To accommodate people you deserve bt said if you come over ron is no business of the form when hes not at the gym you can spend his time at the inclusion of the digital workspace and Learning Center run by the n. G. O. Project an able which trains people with disabilities and Software Skills and also tries to put them in touch with potential employers to societies actually to program to discrimination as to what they should as well with taking it upon ourselves are beyond given them skews persons with disabilities cues we also actively find internship opportunities but the goal of that is to introduce persons with disabilities into the water walk and also help them play as seeing what persons with disabilities can do you can hope that he can find work either through weightlifting or by using his Digital Skills even if he has a few more hurdles to cross. We just saw him in the report and now when he joins us in the studio he is the founder of project in able in Lagos Nigeria hello many thanks for your time now you blame society for discriminating on stigmatizing presence with disabilities how does your project address that. Of course the basic thinking around the disability on the was delicious i think is the social model of disability and that is when we recognize that a society more disabling than the impairment that suppresses we may be suffering and thats why its just in every article we are doing Everything Possible to help persons with disabilities of our contemporary and i saw some years of work with the i think the way that to that platform through which persons with disabilities can overcome the priory of the community have a good will and i can give you an example quickly in a country like nigeria and many other developing countries where transportation mean nothing political person with disabilities to go to work or education exclusive dish and Leverage Technology to go to work they can Leverage Technology to work there mostly because they were technologists go to school and. So while we wait for social inclusion to be in place certainly we can likely never Reach Technology b. S. Because behind technology the ability doesnt want to be one of the main challenges if we are engaged i. C. T. Ok sorry because today one of the main challenges is of course i find a new job how about your project to ensure that most of them after going to your hands get jobs. The biggest promise of the Development Goal is prosperity and you know the biggest challenge is not just enough to equip persons with disabilities. They have to be able to walk so what we do up are just any ways to ensure that we have trained we help them find the trinity so thats why he wants to have an experience of the war the war and then become the employers able to also understand and experience whats best is with disability comes with that as we in our strategy to equip them with cues in practical Economy College viable skills like quoting like 3 d. Animation and the business skills and then we have them finding unity lets support them through the process sometimes with transports buy things and walkstation which they can use. Usually everything from when we didnt play and play ok now and generally as a law was passed in one day out so when Shell Companies hi im all passed with disabilities i lets talk about this realistically how quickly can this happen. It takes a while its one thing to have a policy and another for it to be implemented generally the lack of political will come be a challenge we do not think about it might just as one of those policies done things to make them both occur just unable africa we have launched a Company Called follow these this is from disability and we are using that company to sue to drive to riposte and track the progress made on the 2 days of the launch of the campaign when the companys latest to decide enough what you talk to the government to ensure that the right thing is done would also be engaging private sector and Public Sector stakeholder us to help them know what to do sometimes we just dont know how to quit about this thing to a certain type of community in the society about the law and just help them in practical ways on how to be implemented i would believe that we do this we defiantly as we do given by the local computer implementation people the chief ok when the cocoa found out project unable africa many thanks for the time. 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