Providing disability outreach services to the handcapped

DISABILITY PREVALENCE It is not surprising that there is such as large proportion of people with disabilities live in rural areas given that 80% of Malawi’s population do not live in urban areas. However, there is still a marked over representation (91%) of disability in rural areas. Access to healthcare an higher rates of poverty leading to disease are some of the driving factors behind this. There is a statistically significant variation in prevalence rates based on the regions in which people live. The Northern, more rural and sparsely populated, has significantly higher prevalence rates for both males and females. YOUTH AND DISABILITY It is anticipated that the population of Malawi will roughly triple between 2015 and 2050. There will be more young people than ever before. Census data reveals that young people are more likely to experience hearing disabilities than the general population although it is not clear why this would decrease in older age and there is no robust eviden...

Tithandizane Charity Organization has received three bags of clothes and the organization employees are expecting to start the clothes distribution in different villages of Traditional Authority Njombwa,where by Tithandizane charity will be distributing clothes to the disabled  citizens in form of emergency relief starting from Wednesday this week..Many thanks should go to the well wishers who made this positive development happen.