Welfare Fund: 10% of the population of Aden are disabled
The Source: aden/hadhramaut/sabaanewa.net - 08/01/2010
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A recent report released by Welfare Fund for the care and rehabilitation of the disabled in Aden showed 70 thousand disabled people in Aden governorate almost 10%. of the total population of 700 thousand people, The report indicated that the problem of disability resulting from increasing population growth and traffic accidents on the roads and the spread of some diseases that causes disabilites.It attributed the low number of beneficiaries from services given by the welfare fund, due to the lack of awareness of the rights of people with disabilities, not being creative and the lack of precise statistics of the extent of disability in the Governorate of Aden and the limiting of services given to those people visiting center and associations for the disabled.
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