Entrepreneurs With Disabilities In The Throes Of Liquidation | Sahara Reporters Nigerians living with disabilities are grieving over the loss of their livelihoods to the Coronavirus, sadly there are many more reasons why the weeping in this... READ MORE:
Bukola Adeniji, 39, has a simple invitation to treat strategically etched on her Whatsapp status: “Cakes for birthday and valentine. Call 08068078439.”
But that patronage and profit have disappeared out of sight already – gone with the 2 billion jobs in the informal economy around the world. The International Labour Organization estimates that small-scale entrepreneurs “have suffered massive damage to their capacity to earn a living” due to declining working hours induced by lockdowns to rein in the spread of Coronavirus.
So, in the coming days, it can only get grimmer for Bukola, Ifeanyi, and the crowd of PLWDs struggling to gain economic independence in Nigeria. “I really need some support financially now because my capital has been eroded with the lockdown,” she lamented, adding that, ‘I didn’t get the palliative promised persons with disabilities during the lockdown, so virtually all my business capital have gone into taking care of personal needs while we were staying at home.”
Funding has always been the excuse. And the government will sing it out louder in these trying times as Nigeria’s oil fortunes dip and its economic handlers watch on helplessly as COVID-19 ravages everything in sight. If he and other Nigerians with special needs had not been schemed out by the CBN stringent conditions for loan applicants, Mohammed, whose enterprise involves procurement of assistive technology and mobility devices for persons with disabilities, would have saved the livelihoods of two families whose breadwinners work as staff in his TBlaze General Services.
And Switzerland is offering a global example in this regard – creating rapid access to credit facilities through its Federal Council to its SMEs so they can bridge liquidity shortfalls. But for small enterprises run by Mohammed and his clan of entrepreneurs with disabilities, there is a snag. Paucity of credible data on the population of PLWDs in Nigeria as well as their geographical spread will likely make access to credit facility by members of this community a nightmarish experience.
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