Equality

I said on the PostToday interviewed: “Our law has clear defined, people are all equal, we are all the same, we are human. You will definitely be the people with disabilities in the future.” Thanks to PostToday Ref  to this link: http://www.posttoday.com/social/general/485876 (In Thai)    

“Good infrastructures and facilities are fundamental requirement necessary to be built for everyone.”, said Manit, a campaigner for PWDs’ right. He strongly confirms that it is government’s duty to provide public services for everybody in the society with equality and justice.

The Equality I don’t need to make this up. Just take a look pictures, step off and think.. Only a question: “Would you mind to take my wheelchair for life?”

Accessibility Is FreedomAs we are represented to be a coordinator as well as a group of social activists who has monitored, now mainly, the construction of BTS’s disabled elevator for a year. Today we are heading to the Bangkok’s Civil Court to address this late non-fixed issue of the elevator. We are proud to give vital contribution as a supporter and to tell our society the cold fact. We perceive this, and oncoming, problems through the lens of possibility and are willing to take on just about anything that comes along the way. Some of our projects and campaigns might …

JAS Urban SrinakarinA new fabulous community mall in Srinakarin area has been completed and now opened for full service. This place is very close to my home as I drove by almost everyday. It’s such an impressive feeling that I saw its progress from the ground years ago until fully finished. So I managed my time to have a look. After exploring the overall of the mall, I had to delivery my compliment to its management team as its accessibility was systemically in top-notch level. Let’s take a look on the following;

Every single movement, there should be reason. Why do I’ve to do my short movie “On the rainy day, the equality…” Thank you to Now 26 TV Channel, stay tuned!!

This is only tiny example that shows a wrong design and have never been fixed. Reflects onto the big picture and problems block off the development of people of disabilities in Thailand, since so long. A short movie with English closed caption : on the rainy day, the equality …

It is not easy to encourage people with disabilities to step out of their comfort zone and start living-out to the public communities. It is the government’s responsibilities to help them having normal living life and also living equally and in harmony with people in their communities. Some of community’s facilities such as accessible parking lots should be built differently due to extra accessing spaces are needed. If we can choose, people with disabilities would love to share facilities and live peacefully in the community. That’s right, we don’t want to be viewed as aliens in the community. Elevator is one of facilities which …

According to people affected by the airlines refuse to serve people with disabilities often occur. Representatives of the disabled has taken a complaint to the “Commission social affairs, youth, the elderly, children, the disabled and the disadvantaged”. The subcommittee considered the complaint. This case is an example of the discrimination problem between people with disabilities and the airline in Thailand. Therefore, the subcommittee invite representatives of agencies involved in the supervision, control and licensing to airline attendants to find ways to resolve the problem in a systematic way. And to solve problems impact to all the airlines in Thailand. Today …