Utilise safe homes, says Kaliati
Minister of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare Patricia Kaliati has asked people to take persons with physical disabilities to safe homes to equip them with skills to be economically independent.
She made the call on Friday at Mulanje Vocational and Training Centre for the Blind when Press Trust handed over a classroom block, desks, beds and mattresses worth K65 million.
Said Kaliati: “We have less than 45 students at this institution while there many people in need of such institutions.
“So, we have told the director of disability to ensure that those begging in the streets should go to such institutions.”
She said government has one infrastructure in Lilongwe as a safe home; hence, she asked Press Trust and other well-wishers to support rehabilitating infrastructures at Kwacha in Soche, Mzuzu, Magomero in Chiradzulu, Mpemba in Blantyre.
Press Trust trustee Audrey Mwala said the donation was in response to the call from government.
She said: “Press Trust has two arms, namely commercial and social sides.
“So what we do is to use the commercial side to generate money that we channel towards the social side with an interest to help people because government alone cannot do everything.”
Mulanje Vocational and Training Centre for the Blind was constructed in 1956
