Utilise livelihood support items wisely or face blacklisting, prosecution – Social Welfare to PWDs

The Department of Social Welfare and Community Development has cautioned persons with disabilities (PWDs) to refrain from selling their livelihood support items or face blacklisting or prosecution.

“Some have sold their refrigerators and farm tools in the past, and we cannot allow this to continue,” according to the Agotime-Ziope District Director of the department, Togbe Tsali IV.

He gave the warning when the department presented various livelihood support items to a batch of 29 PWDs in business in the district on Monday, June 8, 2026.

The items included bags of maize, groundnuts, gari, beans, charcoal, detergents, sugar, drums of local gin, wooden stalls, used clothes, consignments of soft drinks, frozen chicken, deep freezers, agro-chemicals, a wheelchair, window meshes, and money to some ailing persons.

Togbe Tsali urged the PWDs in the district to register on the District Album to make the disbursement of the items due them smoother and more transparent. 

The Chairman of the Agotime-Ziope Association of People with Disability, Wisdom Yormekpe thanked the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development for the ceaseless support to its members.

He gave an assurance that the association would work hand-in-hand with the department to ensure all the beneficiaries used the items for the intended purpose.

“With this support, you must stop complaining of hunger, and you have no reason to be begging,” Mr Yormekpe told the beneficiaries.