The jury was deciding about the winner at one children’s contest. It evaluated works of children based on various topics and finally it selected 30 children from the whole country. One of the works captured the jury so much that it was awarded a special prize. Besides many small gifts as rewards for everybody there also was a two week stay in the summer camp, many interesting personalities such as actors, writers, journalists, and also a pilot came to see children. Only the winner of the whole contest was missing there. She was actually confined to a wheelchair since her early childhood.
A wheelchair is destiny. Some people are born with it, some people become confined to it in a second. An accident, an unhappy moment and one begins a different and completely new life. One becomes a disabled person from many reasons, but there is one thing everybody has in common: they have to live with it and struggle with the world around them every day.
Prague is the biggest city in the republic and it has also the highest population of disabled people. There are about 20 thousand of them living in the country. That might be also one of the reasons why there are the best barrier-free arrangements here. We have barrier-free pavements, theatres, WC, accesses to institutions. Prague and its city districts invest considerable financial resources for creating new barrier-free environments every year. Nevertheless, also here we have something to make up for: especially public transportation is falling behind, then the old Prague housing developments are not coping with barrier-free demands very well and Praguers themselves make complicated lives for disabled people even more so when parking on their reserved places.
On the following pages disabled people should find all the available barrier-free facilities in our capital: whether they are offices, sport and cultural institutions, sights or transportation. The rest of you will get to know what life on the wheelchair is about, without having the feeling that you have missed something.
Articles within the field
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21. 9. 2008
First Kerbs Have Disappeared
The life of a disabled person in a wheelchair in the city which did not start taking serious and systematic interest in people in wheelchairs until 1990, is not easy. Fortunately, every year, further barriers fall.
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21. 9. 2008
Map Makes Life Easier for the Disabled
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21. 9. 2008
Travelling by Train, without Obstacles
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16. 9. 2008
How Wheelchair Friendly is Prague?
Wheelchair users living in Prague know the city very well. They know the places where they cannot go, should avoid, or shouldn’t even try to access. They know, all to well, of the aggravation caused by the city’s cobbled pavements.
But how does the wheelchair user, or their assistant, visiting the city for the first time, find their way around?
- 13. May 2008
- 13. May 2008
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