One hundred physically challenged people are among the 1,700 people that have received financial assistance and training on agribusiness from the Kaduna State Agro-Processing, Agricultural Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS).
  
Each of the beneficiaries was provided with N2m to establish agriculture-related small-scale businesses to be self-employed.
   
The Communication Officer of the Kaduna APPEALS, Muhammad Bashir, in a statement, said an interactive session between the beneficiaries and the service providers has been organised to guide them through the process.
   
According to him, two of the representatives of persons with special needs and also beneficiaries of the programme, Mallam Haruna Abubakar and Rukayya Aliyu pledged to utilise what they have learned for the development of the agricultural sector.
 
Bashir said: “They also commended Governor Nasir Ahmed El Rufai’s administration for supporting them to be self-dependent in the state.”
  
The Coordinator, Dr. Yahaya Aminu explained that the 100 people with special needs are part of the 1,700 beneficiaries supported under the women and youth APPEALS project.
 
“It is in line with the social inclusion and social safeguard policy of the state government to support them,” he explained.  
 
The Deputy Director of Kaduna State Disability Board Affairs, Hassan Suleiman, said the support will help the 100 special people the need support to participate in agric-businesses. 

“Developing the mental and physical capacity of persons with special needs would take them off the streets and make them among employers of labour,” he said.