Guyana dropped 50,000 Guyanese dollars on every disabled citizen before the month wraps up, and President Mohamed Irfaan Ali said this one-time cash grant hits over 27,000 people with a total bill of 1.4 billion dollars. The prez announced a disability rights event at the Railway Courtyard in Georgetown, and he framed the whole thing as a responsibility instead of charity while pushing back on treating disability as a limitation.
Ali promised 5,000 jobs for disabled workers over the next five years through pilot programs already running in a couple of regions with private companies backing them. The government is also forcing new public projects to reserve at least 10 percent of space for disability access, and Ali rattled off a bunch of other support stuff like caregiver training grants, tax breaks for families, interest-free startup loans, and a new employment center that already has over 120 workers.
Ali promised 5,000 jobs for disabled workers over the next five years through pilot programs already running in a couple of regions with private companies backing them. The government is also forcing new public projects to reserve at least 10 percent of space for disability access, and Ali rattled off a bunch of other support stuff like caregiver training grants, tax breaks for families, interest-free startup loans, and a new employment center that already has over 120 workers.
