Our friends sent us this image and narrated a sad story that he had to bring her dad to the hospital but the parking wasn’t available. With conditions, she had to drop him off far away and let him walked to the hospital! Visiting the hospital is a basic human rights. Yet many of us still can’t have it due to poor footpath, an unrestricted street vendors, and many physical barriers in our city. Simply walking on a footpath in Bangkok, if not the whole Thailand, remains a challenging activity. There are problems everywhere, you name it.

One of our strong followers sent me this image, taken on last year when he roamed in Japan, of an accessible parking at a shopping mall in Japan. He said excitedly “I shot this scene specifically for you!” Oh my dear, I feel warmed and thankful. This is one my encouragements to keep moving forward.

To allow us to see the differences, see the problems and to improve them. Accessible parking for the one who really need.

Believe it or not, since the very beginning of our organisation (and Page name) I’ve never thought about its Thai name, only English one. Many of my friends often requested me to come up with Thai official name for the proper use in official document. So recently we’ve brainstormed, realising a Thai name would typically catch more eyes on many Thais, and finally come up with this name! Now you guys can search for us more easily, whether in Thai or English Love Saba Accessibility Is Freedom

Along the past 6 years of my intense social contribution, I’ve paid focus on tools for effective communication to convey the best message to everyone. In doing that, it inevitably costed a price to pay, a big amount of expense. When I made a serious field survey: shooting or editing, it needed a storage to collect that useful information. Our close team members would recognise that I put emphasis on storage, all data must be kept safely and conveniently. I already purchased several extra storage tools. But since my finance is not doing quite well recently, this act must be …

When a place doesn’t provide an accessible parking, and when the people misuse it, this is what happen in my daily live. Help us to share… Clip: https://youtu.be/1xdRl24CF0A

According to my last area survey, some might say that it’s “too much”, it’s coming and “can’t hold it”. Here is the picture for an example. In the PTT gas station – Bang Na, there are 2 toilet areas for normal people (male and female). I assume that there should be around 20 rooms in total. However, each area has 1 room for PWDs and one of these two is out of service. So just only 1 left still available.

Let’s see what we have contributed… 1. Advising on the 2nd phase of the High Speed Rail Project (Nakhonratchasima – Nong Khai) at Nakhomratchasima province 1.1 Encouraging and empowering the local PWDs there. This was also to build a strong connection. 1.2 Advising and providing practical information about accessible infrastructure to their responsible department of design and architecture. 1.3 Expected travel expense was about 4,000 Baht. Fortunately, this was subsidized.

Our friend sent us this image, shot at a brand-new luxury boutique hotel at Langsuan area of Bangkok, showing a brand-new accessible toilet with nice decor and he said… “Wow, this is great. What a lovely toilet. Everyone in need can use it. Thank you hotel!” This might be the first reaction from many of you. The toilet is great, and nothing is wrong with that. Yet from my point of view as a PWDs, a real user, I’m afraid to say that this good-looking toilet still holds some “serious flaws” that could prevent entirely those in need from using …

One of our network folks wandered at a luxury shopping at Phrom Phong, and encountered with this spectacular scene shown in the image. Without thinking he cried out “PWDs in Thailand are so rich!!” However, I’d like to remind you that public consciousness and wealth is a different thing. No matter how rich or poor, we’re all the same as people. The mall, too, must obey the law regardless of customer’s social status. “Accessible and functional.”