Cheshire services need support

CHESHIRE Disability Services aims to carry out its programmes at all the centres in the country but this depends on greater support from its partners, says an official.
General manager Benard Ayieko said this during a cheque presentation yesterday in Port Moresby.
Capital Insurance Groups presented K16,990 to Cheshire Disability Services.
Ayieko said Cheshire helped educate and look after people with disabilities in Port Moresby.
He said they had provided education to both children with disabilities and normal children.
Ayieko said officers provided physio-therapy services to patients with injuries as well as training to family members to properly care for relatives with disabilities.
He said Cheshire also went to other centres to provide service to the people with disabilities, but since it was a non-governmental organisation, its funding came from partners and donors.
Ayieko said the cheque received would be used to continue its services to other centres in the country.
Capital Insurance Group graduate support officer Adrian Wamp said as a locally-owned insurer, they were dedicated to helping the community.
He said the funding was part of their efforts in promoting sustainable community development, as this was one of the key areas the company believed in.
“Cheshire is an important organisation, it’s not that you feel sorry for people living with disability but because you believe in them,” he said.
“You know that they too can become valuable members of the society and contribute meaningfully to the development of this country.”
Wamp said the company was passionate about empowering disadvantaged Papua New Guineans.
“Sustainable community development is one of our core values because we see that it empowers people,” he said. “It gives them the potential to have an impact in the society and the other three keys of our sponsorship policy is fight against gender-based violence, food, health and wellbeing and literacy.”