Disabled Centre

In 2019, we met Alex Sarpong, who had lost both his legs in a car accident at the age of  eleven.  He nonetheless went to university and then set up an Association for the Disabled, recruiting all the disabled in Sekyere Central District as members.  When we met him, he was working from a small office in Nsuta, the District capital, but the lease was on the point of running out.

We were very impressed by Alex and his work and decided to build the Association a new Centre, including an office, an IT suite, showers and plenty of space to use as a training centre for themselves and others.  When we visited last year, we found that courses on beadwork, in making soap and footwear were underway, with Association members attending in batches.  The Centre was also being rented out, for example for weddings or funerals, and the IT suite was used for filling in forms or producing letters on commission for members of the public who couldn’t read or write.