Regarding the Day of the White Canethe Francina Hungary Foundation and Free Diary they toured streets of the city of Santo Domingo in which the main obstacles and the precariousness that people with disabilities go through to move through the city of Santo Domingo.
He Day International White Cane It is celebrated every October 15 with the purpose of raising awareness among societymainly at authoritieson the need to create the conditions so that all citizens can have access to walk and move freely through streets and sidewalks.
- During the tour with Katherine Fletea blind person, mother of two children and employee, confirmed the limitations that people with disabilities have. visual impairment and psychomotor to walk freely streets and sidewalks.
Holes without covers, raised sidewalks, trash and puddlesare part of the obstacles that Katherine had to overcome to show the vicissitudes that people with limitations go through. Note that when it is not a vehicle that threatens his life, is a hole or a raised sidewalk that threatens to knock her to the ground.
Katherine says she recently fell in a hole and was trapped in a space where she could be run over by a vehiclebut thank God he didn’t have fracturebut know blind people who have broken legs when falling into holes.
- “It’s uncomfortable, it’s hard to really be a person autonomous as is my case and being able to live with one visual condition If there were truly effective actions, I would not have to be exposed to walking in fear through the streets. streets“, said.
It indicates that thanks to the Francina Hungary Foundation people with visual impairment they can have more autonomy. “So that a person can be completely autonomous Living with a disability it is essential to have a white cane, so this campaign not only seeks to ensure that every blind person has a white cane, but also to raise awareness among the society“.
In her final message Katherine draws the attention of the authorities and of all the society so that their right to walk through the city without obstaclesclean, with good sidewalks and sewers that guarantee walking without the current challenges.
