Today is 1st March 2020, the International Wheelchair Day. The day to make awareness to spread mobility facility services and sharing the advocacy about the struggling of Wheelchair users globally. This day is celebrating very warmly internationally as I noticed. So, I join the day to celebrate it as a Local Guide!? Happy Internation Wheelchair Day 2020!
Last year I introduced a different initiative by the Youth Volunteer organization in Bangladesh that what they did. It was about - Free Wheelchair Service - An initiative by the Youth Volunteers.
It was an inspiring story and our fellow appreciated their activities. Today on this special day I want to share about my another inspiration.
On this day, I want to introduce a Wheelchair hero in Bangladesh and the founder of the Dream For Disability foundation. He is Md Hedaetul Aziz the first Bangladeshi Wheelchair Cricket team founder. His wheelchair cricket team won the tri-nation Wheelchair Cricket Championship which was held in India last year. He is also struggling for the right of disable community in Bangladesh depending on his wheelchair. He has lots of national and international awards and achievements for his activities for the disabled community. He wants to make disability into the ornaments. He also appreciates Google Maps Accessibility features and its services. As a Bangladeshi wheelchair Hero, he also wants to join us in mapping Accessibility in Bangladesh. He is my inspiration for mapping accessibility in BANGLADESH.
As a Local Guide, I have celebrated the day with mapping accessibility in my area. Answering wheelchair related questions, adding ramps photos and editing maps. The day I have passed with a busy guiding schedule- adding new places, edited some places, photos and answering questions although it was my working day!
As an Accessibility Champion of the Local Guides Community, I tried my best to celebrate this in my own way.
I hope Local Guides will join here in this conversation to celebrate the day by sharing what they have done today and can also introduce us to a Local Accessibility hero who makes impacted his disable community. @InaS@sonnyNg@Ivi_Ge@ermest@EmekaUlor@KarenVChin@ShahMdSultan@Mohammadalauddin you all join this thread.
Letâs make a better Accessible world together. Happy Internation Wheelchair Day!!
Happy Guiding!
I would like to tag here some of our Accessibility Champions to know how they celebrated the 'âInternational Wheelchair Dayâ. I hope they will join us and share their story.
Thank you for tagging me @ShafiulB , and thank you for sharing this inspiring post with us! Your motivation is an example for other Local Guides. Keep up sharing and contributing!
@InaS Thanks for your compliments and appreciation. Itâs my pleasure to introduce some new topics and encourage others to do more remarkable contributions to the community.
@ShafiulB thank you for sharing the information. I am aware of the International Wheelchair Day and quite glad that itâs helping to create accessibility awareness.
Very interesting, I didnât know about that date, thanks for sharing. It is very important for social inclusion and visibility of our friends with less mobility.
