What, how and who?
Posted: Sun 17 Dec 2017 8:27 pm
Unfortunately Northern Cyprus is not a good place for disabled people. The geology of the place is against it for a start, and the history where political events has left many places in the state that Disreali's engineers and architects left them! Nor is it within the customs of Turkish Cypriots to seek public care ; although it is sadly dying off the extended family caring for its own young, elderly and disabled still exists.
I believe that the few signs of improvement (such as the disabled parking spaces in car parks) is simply an attempt to attract EU support/funding and with recent events who knows what will happen now!
Soner's post above highlighted the problems of one type of disability in one situation and area. Suggestions were made for "haranguing" the authorities.
I am afraid a few complaints by an enfranchised and often unsupportive minority is unlikely to get anywhere. There are other types of disability that we do not even hear of.
What the expat British community needs to do is to demonstrate that they care about disability and set an example in enabling sufferers to live normal and independent lives. This means "voting with our feet" and whenever booking for a meal or a facility or even visiting a market ask what facilities it has for disabled people and make it clear that in future you will be looking for places that provide facilities. This applies particularly to organisations making bookings for large numbers of people.
The other thing is : imagine you have been stuck at home or just in your village for weeks; the opportunity arises for an exciting trip out; after great expectations you get there and find you cannot take part because the location is up a flight of steps or a steep slope that you cannot manage, or that you cannot walk the distance you have to park away, or that the place is OK but the loos are up or down a flight of steps.
I would like to provide a list of popular (eg restaurants) AND necessary (eg Govt. offices, hospitals, dentist , vets etc..>) places With notes of those with disabled facilities and those that are inaccessible. Also sometimes if you have found a way to get over the problem (eg a back entrance) I hope with ADmin/mods permission to start a thread listing such places. Meantime I can only speak for those with mobility problems. I hope those with other issues/needs will write in (or contact me by pm) with suggestions.
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I believe that the few signs of improvement (such as the disabled parking spaces in car parks) is simply an attempt to attract EU support/funding and with recent events who knows what will happen now!
Soner's post above highlighted the problems of one type of disability in one situation and area. Suggestions were made for "haranguing" the authorities.
I am afraid a few complaints by an enfranchised and often unsupportive minority is unlikely to get anywhere. There are other types of disability that we do not even hear of.
What the expat British community needs to do is to demonstrate that they care about disability and set an example in enabling sufferers to live normal and independent lives. This means "voting with our feet" and whenever booking for a meal or a facility or even visiting a market ask what facilities it has for disabled people and make it clear that in future you will be looking for places that provide facilities. This applies particularly to organisations making bookings for large numbers of people.
The other thing is : imagine you have been stuck at home or just in your village for weeks; the opportunity arises for an exciting trip out; after great expectations you get there and find you cannot take part because the location is up a flight of steps or a steep slope that you cannot manage, or that you cannot walk the distance you have to park away, or that the place is OK but the loos are up or down a flight of steps.
I would like to provide a list of popular (eg restaurants) AND necessary (eg Govt. offices, hospitals, dentist , vets etc..>) places With notes of those with disabled facilities and those that are inaccessible. Also sometimes if you have found a way to get over the problem (eg a back entrance) I hope with ADmin/mods permission to start a thread listing such places. Meantime I can only speak for those with mobility problems. I hope those with other issues/needs will write in (or contact me by pm) with suggestions.
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