http://cfi-blog.org/2009/08/07/the-disabled-poor/ Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:34:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cfi-blog.org/2009/08/07/the-disabled-poor/#comment-298 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:06:48 +0000 http://centerforfinancialinclusionblog.wordpress.com/?p=815#comment-298 [...] the Center for Financial Inclusion, we couldn’t agree more that inclusion is meaningless if the disabled are excluded. In fact, at our recently concluded Advisory Council meeting held at the Center on October 22, the [...]

]]> http://cfi-blog.org/2009/08/07/the-disabled-poor/#comment-297 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:09:45 +0000 http://centerforfinancialinclusionblog.wordpress.com/?p=815#comment-297 The impossibility of achieving full financial inclusion is very clear if the disabled are not included in the equation. ln my native country Ghana, there are rehabilitation centres and govermental institutions under the department of social welfare that have trained many disabled people who end up in the streets of the capital city and many other principal cities and towns begging for money. They have become liability to the poor state after the state has invested in them. This is because of inavailability of capital to invest in the trade they have and also no job opportunities for them due to stigma that is attached to them in that society.
I think microfinance organizations can do a great job when providing financial services to people with disabilities and private sectors who are willing to employ them and enjoy insentives like tax reduction.

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