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  • The Centre for Employment of Persons with Disabilities (CEPD) has lauded the government’s 2025 budget, calling it a “Super Inclusive Budget” and an “unprecedented milestone” in Ghana’s Fourth Republic for prioritising the rights, economic participation, and well-being of persons with disabilities (PWDs). The CEPD highlighted several key aspects of the budget which was presented to […]

  • eSAL Services for the recruitment of Persons with Disabilities for jobs Jobberman Ghana Limited for the recruitment of Persons with Disabilities for training and jobs Mind builders Africa for the skills training of Persons with Disabilities

  • The Centre for Employment of Persons with Disabilities (CEPD) and the Ghana Chamber for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities (GCED) have joined forces to celebrate the resilience, innovation, and invaluable contributions of women with disabilities, on the occasion of International Women’s Day. In a statement issued on March 8, 2025, the two organisations highlighted the unique challenges […]

  • The Centre for Employment of Persons with Disabilities (CEPD) and the Ghana Chamber for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities (GCED) have come together to recognise and celebrate the invaluable contributions of women with disabilities to national development, particularly on this International Women’s Day. In a joint statement, the organisations acknowledged the unique and multifaceted challenges faced by […]

  • The Centre for Employment of Persons with Disabilities (CEPD) has extended a congratulations message to President John Dramani Mahama, for what they called his visionary leadership in considering the private member bill submitted by the Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu. According to CEPD, this significant proposal seeks to establish a 5% employment quota […]

  • The Centre for Employment of Persons with Disabilities (CEPD) has issued a congratulatory message to President John Dramani Mahama, praising his support for a proposed bill that would establish a 5% employment quota for persons with disabilities (PWDs), and for his promise to provide free tertiary education. The bill, championed by Honorable Francis-Xavier Sosu, Member […]

  • The Centre for Employment of Persons with Disabilities (CEPD), along with its affiliate bodies, the Ghana Chamber for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities, and the Ghana Disability Forum, has extended warm congratulations to His Excellency John Dramani Mahama on his swearing-in as President of the Republic of Ghana. In a formal statement released on Saturday, January 11, […]

  • Unemployed graduates with disabilities in the country are calling on President Akuffo-Addo to get them employment before the end of this month to prove that he is a father for all Ghanaians and not a father for some. “We are calling on President Nana Addo, if truly he is a father for all, not a […]

  • An international Non-Governmental Organisation, Osei Baako Foundation (OBF) in partnership with Center for Employment of Persons with Disabilities (CEPD) and Extra Helping Hand Foundation (EHHF) has organised an employability skills training workshop to enhance the capacities of persons with disabilities. The workshop was organised in celebration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. On […]

  • Ghana Chamber of Entrepreneurs with Disabilities (GCED) has called on President Akufo and his government to, as a matter of urgency, take steps to lessen the suffering of persons with disabilities in the country. The current economic hardship bedeviling the country is making life extremely unbearable for persons with disabilities in the country, according to […]

  • The Department of Social Welfare of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has temporarily taken over the care of a three-week-old baby who was sold to an orphanage for Gh¢5,000. On Friday September 2, 2022, officials of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DoVVSU) of the Ministries Police Station in Accra told […]

  • Free Wheelchair Mission, a US-based organisation that distributes free wheelchairs to persons with disabilities across the world, has held a three-day capacity–building training for its partners in Ghana. 25 volunteers from Centre for Employment of Persons with Disabilities, Enlightening and Empowering of Persons with Disabilities and the Global Evangelical Church-Ghana, the distribution partners in the […]

  • The world will be celebrating another workers’ day (May Day) in the next two days (May 1, 2022), but in Ghana, only small a handful of persons with disabilities (PWDs) are going to be part of that celebration, owing to a high rate of unemployment of PWDs in the country. Advocacy over the years educating […]

  • The Executive Director of Centre for Employment of Persons with Disabilities (CEPD), Mr. Alexander Kojo Tetteh, is appealing for support to construct an accessible ramp at Liberty Avenue 1 primary school; a state owned primary school at Adabraka in Accra. The ramp, if constructed, will make movement easy for a boy with disability in the […]

  • The chairman of a disability advocacy group, Ghana Disability Forum, Mr. Alexander Tetteh has called for the exemption of persons with disabilities from the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy). He said, he wished that the Government would listen to the cry of the general public and withdraw the E-Levy. However, if it succeeded in passing it, […]

  • “We wish to express our uttermost disappointment at the current Government’s seemingly disinterest in the meaningful participation of Persons with Disabilities in the general governance of this country.” The disability community in Ghana, led by the Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations (GFD), is disappointed in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for what they call tokenism […]

  • The Centre for Employment of Persons with Disabilities (CEPD) in collaboration with the British Council has sponsored some seven (7) persons with disabilities