A foundation will be launched next year in honour of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the 2012 presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

The Foundation, Human Rights & Persons with Disability Foundation (HRPDF), would be preliminarily unveiled in December 2013.

However, it would be officially launched on March 29, 2014 to coincide with the 70th birthday of Nana Akufo-Addo, Mary Ohenewaa Afful, the Director of Programmes and Strategic Planning of the Foundation told DAILY GUIDE.

According to Ms. Afful, the non-governmental organization had been established to address issues of human rights violations and to provide Persons with Disability (PWDs) with support in their daily activities, as well as legal support when the need arises.

“The Foundation is also set up to advocate and ensure that the legal rights of PWDs are upheld and respected. Many a time some PWDs have to spend the rest of their lives with mental, sensory, and physical impairments, which have substantial long term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities, notwithstanding the fact that they need help and support in order to have meaningful lives,” the Programmes Director of the Foundation explained.

Ms. Afful explained that “the Foundation is named after Nana Akufo-Addo to extol the never-ending selfless political sacrifice of Nana Akufo-Addo, fighting the abuse of the fundamental human rights of the people of Ghana as an astute politician at the forefront of the long and hard struggle against military dictatorship and towards democratization for the national good.”

Dr. Kwame Amoako Tufour, the former Chief Executive of Ghana School Feeding Programme and a stalwart of the NPP, is the Executive Director of the Human Rights & Persons With Disability Foundation.

As part of its functions, the Foundation would provide the platform for victims to express their grievances.