“Initially they had asked us to print 500 hundred copies but when we gave them a quotation of $13 000 they dropped to 200 copies,” said Dorothy Duncan Braille Library, Rehabilitation and Transcription Centre Director, Andrew Mutambisi. “We printed 200 copies for $6 000, which is not enough to cater for the blind population.”
Mutambisi urged the government to take measures to facilitate the involvement of people with disabilities in national processes.
“The government should be at the forefront of promoting accessibility for the disabled to engage, learn, share, and make choices just like the rest of Zimbabweans,” said Mutambisi.
COPAC Co-chairperson, Douglas Mwonzora, said they were facing financial constrains as they were yet to receive the $3,6 million needed for the publicity of the draft constitution. “We are using the little resources that we have. Our budget for the publicity of the draft was approved but we have not received the money,” Mwonzora said.
Parliament adopted the draft constitution last week and the government has formally written to the United Nations Development Programme seeking $250 million for the forthcoming constitutional referendum and elections expected sometime this year.
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