Accessible Facilities

Fashion Island A well-known and leading shopping mall in Ram-in-thra area. However, previously, this mall was just like any others that had poor design and accessibility on priority parking. They didn’t comply the regulations on how priority parking should be nicely provided. Service quality that needed improvement. It occurred just around this time a year ago. So we rushed to give them some pieces of advice and tried to engage in practical processes. Surprisingly, within a month, everything was wholly transformed to the better. The speed they changed was impressively fast.

The disabled parking space problem, we’ve been working for almost 2 years. This may look like a very tiny problem, but this is not. This problem is showing how quality of our social are, it is also critical effecting our whole society. And it is definitely effecting to the rights and equality.

13 July 2016 Accessibility Is Freedom was attending a meeting with the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEP) regarding accessible facilities, held by Mr. Maitri Intasood, Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, as President, and Mr. Somchai Chalernaumnuysook, Director-General of Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, as Vice President, as well as the management team from the provision of accessible infrastructure and environment for PWDs.

Public restrooms, almost all of them built with a none standard even in Thailand we have a very good accessible law clearly defined since very long time.  

15 May 2016 Disabled Parking Spots Survey at Robinson Suphanburi Shopping Mall.

This surprisingly me … Central Plaza Rama 3 department store. A big handsome man said his (girl) friend having the sore on her eyes.

ะ Terminal 21 Visiting shopping centers I have never forgotten to inspect the priority parking bays those they have provided. After having finished checking the elevator installation at BTS station, I made my way to Terminal 21 the shopping centre for my dinner. Yes, I did not forget to drop in at the priority parking area for PWD to check if I could spot some changes or any problems over there. As the time was limited I randomly went to M floor and I could see that the parking bays for PWD were fully occupied. This could be evidence reflecting the excellent …

Accessibility Is Freedom journey is for leaning. We would like to see the difference, and bring back for the better development of our country. One of the things that we have learnt from Singapore is, (almost) anywhere we go, there will always have an information. And there are common rules that everyone respect. Just like this stickers of common rule on the floor. If there are none of this, people will be people would just walk in and out of the elevator with un-order. But with this, everyone just follow and do it naturally. To grow up the quality of the …

Of course, our first goal we would like to check out is the disabled parking spaces. At Singapore from 6 days of living: + 100% no rail-block (in Thailand cause us can’t use the spaces by ourself) + No Ignored People (Well, would say usually / it is not 100% will tell you later) + And it is 10,400 THB fine. This definitely clearly shows the society quality.

Thailandis a member of The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, or CRPD. All members need to continuously update and report their progresses regarding the subject. I got an opportunity to involve with the meeting and, surprisingly, acknowledged tremendous efforts of many members to improve PWDs’ standard of living in their countries.