WHY BEHAVE AS IF PERSONS-WITH-DISABILITIES ARE NOT CITIZENS AND PEOPLE THAT SHOULD BE CATERED FOR BY THE STATE

PWDS in Sports

Persons-With-Disabilities (PWDs) are like the regular citizens - the "So-called Able People", full citizens and equal stakeholders and rightful co-owners of the common resources of the Country.

Both, the PWDs and regular citizens of Nigeria face challenges and difficulties daily, and in most cases, the challenges, difficulties and problems that the PWDs face are to say the least, stiffer and even more devastating, frustrating and suffocating. The fact that most of the So-called Able people, always spend most part of the day in life, harping on what they need that are not provided by the authorities or where the provisions are made, but are inadequate, should not over shadow the fact that the PWDs have their own challenges and peculiarities. 

CEREBRAL PALSY – STIGMATIZATION AND DISCRIMINATION NOT THE WAY TO GO

A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Glowing Star Empowerment Initiative and Development (GSEID), with interest in advocacy and empowerment of Children and individuals with special needs, their parents and guardians, other family and non-family members, joined the world to celebrate World Cerebral Palsy Day, October 6, 2025, in Jos, Plateau state, North Central Nigeria.

EVERY CHILD, REGARDLESS OF ABILITY, DESERVES ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND OPPORTUNITIES TO GROW AND SHINE - Atta Safiya Mansoor

Atta Safia Mansoor

Atta Safiya Mansoor is the founder, Glowing Star Empowerment Initiative and Development (GSEID), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) focused on advocacy, with respect to empowering children and individuals with special needs, and by extension the people caring for them: parents, guardians and other family and non-family members.

(2 of 5) GRANDPA'S STORY: LONELINESS, ALTERCATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS

 

Growing up as a youth, there was this elderly Man in our neighborhood that I will represent here as "Grandpa”. He was exactly a Grandpa, though not very old. 

Grandpa was married and his wife was still alive, strong and healthy, though, she was always on and off, hardly around. She was always on the go, visiting their children on regular basis, based on their invitations. They love their father so much, at least in their own Wisdom, and were always ready to do anything that will make him happy. However, they hardly invite him, and hardly visit him. Whenever Grandma travelled, she stayed long, at times for upwards of 9 months, and after a stint with Grandpa, she embarked on another visit. In one of such numerous visits, she stayed away for two years plus.

WHATEVER THE CHALLENGES AND/OR THE GAINS LOOK SKYWORDS

 

Whatever the challenges of life that you have faced sometime in the past, or that you are facing at the moment...

Whatever the gains, rewards or benefits that you have received in the past, or that you are presently enjoying, please, learn to look up, skywards unto the heaven, 

The colours of the sky are always quite amazing and Beautifully so.

COLOURS OF THE SKY AS CAPTURED BY Nnabugwu Chizoba

 

BEAUTY IN THE SKY - CAPTURED BY Nnabugwu Chizoba