FEROZKOH (SW) – A number of disabled people of Ghor gathered this morning in Ferozkoh city, the capital of this province, took to the streets against the government’s negligence.
One of these disabled people, 28-year-old Amirdad had lost both his legs in a mine explosion. He came to this protest in a wheelchair. He told Salam Watandar that in the last two years no attention has been paid to the disabled people of Ghor and they are living in a difficult situation.
Amirdad, who has a family of four, wants the government to give rights to all the disabled, including him.
At the same time, a number of other protesting disabled people say that their problems have increased with the arrival of winter. They also demanded job opportunities.
Abdul Qayyum Behboodi, the head of Ghor’s disabled community, said: “Our request from the government is to increase the budget of disabled people so that they can receive their salaries on time because disabled people don’t have any income anymore”.
Nizamuddin, another disabled participant of the protest in Ghor, said that he can work and the government should appoint him to work in government agencies, so that he can earn a livelihood for himself and his family.
On the other hand, the local officials of Ghor ignore the objection of the disabled and say that due to the lack of budget, they have not given the rights of the disabled for the second term.
Director of Martyrs and Disabled Affairs of Ghor, Gul Muhammad Mutawakal, said that he has shared this issue with the Ministry of Martyrs and Disabled Affairs and hopes that they will give funds to the disabled people of this province to hand over their rights to them.
According to the officials of the Department of Martyrs and Disabled Affairs of Ghor, there are more than 12,000 civil and military disabled people in this province, and more than 8,000 of them have received their rights. According to them, they give 2 to 15 thousand Afghanis to the families of the disabled and war victims in this province.
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