President Mugabe is being welcomed by Vice President Joice Mujuru while Transport and Infrastractural Development Minister Obert Mpofu looks on at Harare International Airport. (Pic by Tawanda Mudimu)
Charles Mushinga, recently in LILONGWE, Malawi
PRESIDENT Mugabe has hailed churches and voluntary organisations for the role they played in caring for people living with disabilities but insisted that government needs to act to cater for their welfare.
Speaking at a State dinner hosted by Malawi president Dr Joyce Banda at the close of the African Leaders Forum on Disability, at the State House in Lilongwe on Monday, President Mugabe said it took voluntary organisations and churches to help people living with disabilities but “much still had to be done for this category of discriminated people.”
“We got to know that there were methods of bringing greater ability to these people. The blind could be helped to see in their blindness . . . they needed the love of society – from top to bottom. “They need us, people in government, to act.”
President Mugabe arrived back in the country this afternoon after being seen off at Kamuzu International Airport by Malawi president, Dr Banda.
Vice president, Amai Joice Mujuru, service chiefs and senior government officials welcomed the President at Harare International Airport.
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