Micro Finance for the Physically Challenged Scheme This is an aspect of the Disability Benefit of the ratified ILO Convention 102. We know that disability is not necessarily inability; therefore, an investment in micro finance institutions would thus enhance the spirit of entrepreneurship and production amongst the physically challenged. This would come in form of training the Physically Challenged in Vocational skills to empower them to become employable, to engage in entrepreneurial production, to earn a decent living and thus take them off the streets.
The implementation of this scheme will be through partnering with vocational centers, technical institutes, ICT centers, Master trainers and the skill areas would include Arts and Crafts, Packaging, Data processing, Computer programming, software development, call Centre operators, Tailoring, etc.
NSITF PLEDGE
The NSITF has 46 years cumulative experience in poverty alleviation schemes and therefore, can provide the platform upon which the government’s poverty alleviation programmes can be anchored.
NSITF is ready and prepared to play its important role as the provider of Social Security to all Nigerian citizens and thereby act as the social Conscience of Government thus fulfilling the lofty social objectives enshrined in Chapter II of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 otherwise christened as “Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy”.
