As part of the activities to mark this year’s International White Cane Day, one hundred visually impaired persons have received world-class white canes with chips to assist them in moving around with little or no help, courtesy of the Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency, ANSAA, in partnership with other groups.
The beneficiaries received the assistive tool at the second edition of ANSAA’s “White Cane Campaign” held at All Saints Cathedral Onitsha with the theme, “One blind, one cane: a journey of resilience”.
Speaking at the event, the Managing Director of ANSAA, Mr Odili Ujuboñu, represented by the General Manager of the agency, Mr Chijioke Agbanyim, explained that the second edition of the campaign was in fulfilment of the promise made when the leadership of NAB, last year, requested for out-of-home advert spaces for white cane sensitization.
In their separate remarks, the National Chairman of NAB and former Chairman of the Joint National Association of People Living with Disabilities, JONAPWD, in the state, Mr Lawrence Nwanolue, the Anambra State Chairman of NAB, Comrade Ernest Okanmelu, and Chairman of White Cain Committee, Mr Chizoba Orji, commended ANSAA and partners for their humanitarian efforts in promoting the use of white cane as a vital tool for mobility and independence of members.
Speaking after leading the unveiling and sharing of the white canes to the beneficiaries, the Mayor of Onitsha North Local Government, Honourable Tony Nwora, commended the initiative and said that just as Governor Chukwuma Soludo and wife Nonye, are doing in the state, his government will continue to give persons with disabilities a sense of belonging in its affairs.
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