TACLOBAN CITY- Twenty five wheelchairs were distributed to disabled persons in Leyte by a foundation through the provincial government of Leyte. Governor Leopoldo Dominico Petilla told reporters in an interview after the distribution of the wheelchairs at the provincial Capitol grounds last August 12 that the Beautiful Gate Foundation for the Disabled (BGFD), headed by its executive director Pastor Sia Siew Chin, based in Malaysia, has distributed one wheelchair each to 25 beneficiaries from his province. Petilla added that the 25 disabled persons who were recipients of the wheelchairs were all survivors of supertyphoon Yolanda that devastated the province more than nine months ago. Petilla added that with the wheelchairs, the persons with disability will be provided with mobility adding that that they could become more productive as individuals. The governor said that the organization of the persons with disability in the province is an active group with more than 3,000 members headed by Marta Villafañe, the president of the Federation of the Disabled Persons in Leyte.
(RESTITUTO CAYUBIT/ROEL T. AMAZONA)
