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The “Accessibility Is Freedom Fundraising” project by Khun Awn who initiated this idea on year 2017 and 2018 was the 2nd anniversary. It’s such a thoughtful and lovely day where the gathering of supporters cherishes. The voluntary contribution of money so far accounts for 54,270 THB, plus 50 AUD. A groups of supporters consist of “Thais in Perth“, “Pa-ya-krut (Garuda) and their friends“, and many more who wish to stay anonymous. The image below from Khun Awn includes:

Because of truly hard working and everybody’s valuable contribution, it leaded me to get to an involvement of wide range of connection from all around the world. It was deeply my pleasure to get to know every one of you. Fantastic! Among those amazing people, there was one strong woman named Teacher’ Awn. I initially got to know her from an announcement for volunteering in translation work.

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 …

The following story was a conversation between me and the Deputy Bangkok Governor, Mr. Amorn Kitchawengkul. We’re been talking about the BTS Accessibility and human rights issue that, since last year, the Supreme Court ordered Bangkok Metro Administration and BTS, to complete enable full accessibility on BTS sky train system.