Bulk of Chiredzi women, children with disabilities undocumented

ABOUT 95% of women and children with disabilities in Chiredzi do not have civil documents such as birth certificates and national identity cards and are calling on government to ensure they easily obtain documentation which would enable compilation of accurate statistics of people with disabilities (PDWs).

Participants at a Women With Disabilities sensitisation workshop on the proposed second Constitutional Amendment Bill, organised by Institute for Communication Development Zimbabwe (ICODZ), argued that PWDs were treated as second-class citizens, marginalised, excluded and poorest groups in Chiredzi.

One of the facilitators, lawyer Emmanuel Chibudu, who took participants through the sections of the proposed Amendment Bill said the government had failed to consider PWDs in section 11 of the proposed Bill because it did not have accurate data on the number of PWDs.

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