Event hosted for people with disabilities

On Wednesday, August 25 a number of guests were welcomed to a very special event hosted by Gauteng Social Development’s Disability Unit.

Close to 30 persons with disabilities attended the informative event at the Roodepoort Theatre. According to Seda Joburg Branch Cooperative Development Specialist, Dali Ramncwana the event forms part of their Seda (Small Enterprise Development Agency) Awareness Programme which encourages local communities to make use of the Seda products and services.

“This time around Seda is just focusing on the people living with disabilities, which is a sector that is usually forgotten. We do this in an attempt to lend a hand to the people living with disabilities,” he explained.

It is a joint venture between the Seda Cooperatives and Community Public Private Partnership Programme, CoGTA Community Development Workers Programme, and Social Development Persons with Disabilities Programme that joined hands to support and advise entrepreneurial PWDs in selected areas.

“We not only focused on Seda products and services, and Seda cooperatives and community public private partnerships, but also on other Department of Small Business Development Support Programmes with special emphasis on Township and Rural Enterprise Programme application,” Dali said.

The presentation was done by Dali and the event was supported by CoGTA, Department of Social Development (CoJ Disability Unit) and various Region C NGOs.

“It was a pleasure to host the event and to encourage these valuable members of the community. We trust that all guests benefited from our presentation and look forward to seeing what they achieve in future,” he concluded.