Friendly Prague
Every modern metropolis should offer its inhabitants and its visitors the widest possible spectrum of services not only as far as housing, work etc. are concerned, but also such services, towards which the majority of us has a very positive attitude: sport, relaxation and entertainment.
A pleasant, accommodating city without prejudices or indifference and without a number of purposeless measures is the dream of many and mainly of all those, who are in one way or another handicapped in the broadest sense of the word. The pages that you have just opened are dedicated precisely to these people. People who have not been so lucky in life as to be able to say „I am a person without a real handicap“. People, who, unlike us, have to think each time they want to go out: Where will we go? Will it be accessible by wheelchair? Will there be anything I could eat on the menu? or Will I be able to read such a menu?
As one expression says, man does not live by bread alone. These pages will not only provide you with a list of Prague’s wheelchair access restaurants offering gluten-free meals, with menus in Braille and with waiters who have mastered sign language. Friendly Prague is a project that tries to transect cultural and free-time activity institutions, organizations which bring together people with similar handicaps. It contains information on current progress in medicine, interviews with people who have to live with the burden of a handicap and it needs to be said that they cope incredibly well. You will learn that any of us can easily become handicapped (with some handicaps it’s just a matter of seconds or a few minutes) and that a view from the other side of the same city can be completely different.
People in wheelchairs will not only find here a wide list of institutions, monuments or public toilets accessible by wheelchair; they will also learn where they can do sports or how many active organizations operate in Prague and which kind of people they unite. People suffering from diabetes, coeliac disease, phenylketonuria and other people with special diets will, in turn, have the opportunity to make use of our list of restaurants and shops, which offer special dietary meals and foodstuffs. And again, there will be information on different organizational centres, sport and free-time activities or progress in medicine. Our web guide will also be a help to people with bad eyesight or hearing. It will give them advice relating to education, entertainment, sport or relaxation.
Special space in this project is dedicated to mothers and young children. Although this is not a handicap in the strict sense of the word, many mothers feel differently about it when they go out with their babies or toddlers. Our webpages provide a list of different institutions providing a children’s corner for older children, a changing mat for the little ones or restaurants with baby chairs, bibs and babyfood. Or something perfectly common abroad: a childminder who will look after the child throughout the mother's stay in a particular establishment.
Even if you are handicapped, you can do plenty of things in your life. You can study, do sports, travel, work, run errands visiting different authorities, or simply go out with friends and have fun. We want to show you, that all this is possible in Prague – the city that wants to become your friendly metropolis.