Centre for children with disabilities set to take off in Lagos

A centre that will provide capacity building for children with disability has been established in Lagos.

 The Centre which is located in the Surulere area of Lagos state will provide training, learning aids and vocational education for children with disabilities in order to give them the opportunity to develop and harness their potential.

According a statement signed by Adewale Adeoye and Akinwale Kasali on behalf of JODER, the Ford Foundation West African Regional Office is working with the Journalists for Democratic Rights (JODER) and other civil society groups working on disabilities.

 JODER in the statement stated that the “Centre is for children who suffer many forms of exclusion and are affected by the impacts in varying degrees, depending on the type of disability.”