105 000 suffer disabled despair

Low levels of access to the education system, as well as the absence of proper rehabilitation and vocational training for those with disabilities, has resulted in in some estimating the unemployment rate among Namibia’s disabled to be as high as 90%.
This is according to Vice-President Dr Nickey Iyambo, whose office is also responsible for the plight of the about 105 000 Namibians living with disabilities.
The majority of these marginalised and disempowered Namibians live in rural areas.
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