Kondowe-The new policy will address issues facing persons with albinism[/caption]
Among other things, the national policy will improve protection and security of the rights of PWA as well as increase their opportunities in their day to day activities.
Contents in the policy will encompass views from different stakeholders across the country and these views will form the basis of how issues concerning persons with albinism will be handled.
Upon completion, Malawi will be the second country in Africa after Nigeria to have such policy.
Kondowe revealed that government would take the front role in dissemination of the policy using different channels of communication as well through the social welfare office.
One of the organisations which fight for the rights of children with disabilities Parents of Disabled Children Association of Malawi (PODCAM) believes that the policy will assist a lot in changing the livelihood of people with disabilities.
Amongst the children with disabilities that the organisation fights are children who are born with albinism other disabilities.
Project Officer for PODCAM, Msenga Mulungu said that as of now there is no document that was specifically protecting persons with albinism as such this would be a living tool for the country to have.
“There are some communities whereby new born babies with albinism or any disability are dying in their infancy because such communities believe that those children cannot grow into productive citizens as such they are killed when they are born," he said.
Mulungu said it would remove all myths around persons with disabilities and albinism that lead to their vulnerability and the nation would learn that that once a child is born is no longer belongs to an individual but the state.
To Willard and other persons with albinism the development of this policy is a ray of a hope.
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New Policy in Malawi offers persons with albinism hope
People with albinism in Malawi face numerous human rights abuses such as abductions, killings and mutilations of body parts on the assumptions that...
Kondowe-The new policy will address issues facing persons with albinism[/caption]
Among other things, the national policy will improve protection and security of the rights of PWA as well as increase their opportunities in their day to day activities.
Contents in the policy will encompass views from different stakeholders across the country and these views will form the basis of how issues concerning persons with albinism will be handled.
Upon completion, Malawi will be the second country in Africa after Nigeria to have such policy.
Kondowe revealed that government would take the front role in dissemination of the policy using different channels of communication as well through the social welfare office.
One of the organisations which fight for the rights of children with disabilities Parents of Disabled Children Association of Malawi (PODCAM) believes that the policy will assist a lot in changing the livelihood of people with disabilities.
Amongst the children with disabilities that the organisation fights are children who are born with albinism other disabilities.
Project Officer for PODCAM, Msenga Mulungu said that as of now there is no document that was specifically protecting persons with albinism as such this would be a living tool for the country to have.
“There are some communities whereby new born babies with albinism or any disability are dying in their infancy because such communities believe that those children cannot grow into productive citizens as such they are killed when they are born," he said.
Mulungu said it would remove all myths around persons with disabilities and albinism that lead to their vulnerability and the nation would learn that that once a child is born is no longer belongs to an individual but the state.
To Willard and other persons with albinism the development of this policy is a ray of a hope.