Church of Later Day Saints Donates 500 Wheelchairs

Church of Later Day Saints Donates 500 Wheelchairs

The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints has donated 500 wheelchairs to the Lesotho National Federation of Organizations of the Disabled (LNFOD). The donation is to be presented to patron of the organization, Queen 'M'aSenate Mohato Bereng Seeiso on February 22.

LNFOD chairman, Mr. Mikia Malulela said 78 of the chairs will be delivered to the Leribe district immediately after the presentation to the Queen, as per the request of the donors, who wanted the chairs distributed countrywide. Leribe was the first of such distributions.

The Federation would present the chairs to the Leribe District Secretary who in consultation with Members of Parliament from the district, would see to the equitable distribution of the chairs as they have been involved in the coordination of lists of people with physical disabilities.

LNFOD was established in 1989 to protect human rights of people with disabilities. It is the mother body of the Lesotho National league of the Visually Impaired Persons, National Association of the Deaf in Lesotho, Lesotho Society of the Mentally Handicapped Persons and Lesotho National Association of the Physically Disabled.

21 February 2005

source: LENA