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The Project\u2019s name:\n\u201cP\u00e9cs is liveable as a barrier-free city\u201d<\/p>\n
The Project\u2019s name:
\n\u201cP\u00e9cs is liveable as a barrier-free city\u201d<\/p>\n
Supproted by<\/span>: P\u00e9csi K\u00f6z\u00f6ss\u00e9gi Alap\u00edtv\u00e1ny (P\u00e9cs Community Foundation)<\/p>\n Co-supported by:\u00a0“P\u00e9cs\u00a0 City\u00a0 for\u00a0 wheelchair users\u00a0 – Promoting Inclusion through\u00a0 both Improved\u00a0 Wheelchair Accessibility\u00a0 and Community building” \u2013 \u00a0Funded by the C.S. Mott Foundation under the Global Challenges Local Solutions Program run by the Academy for the Development of Philanthrophy in Poland<\/p>\n Its duration: 22.11.2018 – 31.08.2019<\/p>\n About the project in a nutshell:<\/p>\n Members of People First Association P\u00e9cs\u00a0 have formed teams of two (consisting of a handicapped and an able-bodied person) and started\u00a0 visiting restaurants, cafes, hotels, shops and public institutions in P\u00e9cs to map barrier-free places. They will talk to the owners to let put a sticker \u2013 which we designed \u2013 on the doors just like Visa or MasterCard. The sticker is 10\u00d710 size, not ostentatious, not too colorful, not distracting but shows that the place is barrier-free so handicapped people can easily enjoy what the place has to offer just like other people.<\/p>\n In case the place has a truly (not only in the image of society \u201cno stairs, so it must be barrier-free\u201d) barrier-free toilet \u2013 which is because of basic needs is just as important as it is with our able bodied fellow-creature \u2013 a WC sign appears in the lower right corner of the sticker as well. If the toilet isn\u2019t barrier-free, the WC sign don\u2019t appear on the sticker.<\/p>\n If the establishment is not fully accessible but improving its accessibility is possible and the owners of the establishment are open to it, we will be happy to support them with advice regarding the\u00a0sourcing and installation of ramps, handrails etc., as well as help with official procedures.<\/p>\n In return the Association does not expect any financial compensation from the restaurants\/caf\u00e9s, moreover we will display it in a map-mode on our website, as well as through the wheelmap.org<\/a> website all over the world (!), and we would like to achieve it similarly on the urban media sites.<\/p>\n Later we will extend this project to food and clothing stores.<\/p>\n All of this greatly contributes P\u00e9cs, as an assessment of barrier-free livable city, it\u2019s also a tourist attractant factor, because our disabled people are travelling the same amount and with the same enthusiasm like everyone else. Especially if a city specifically encourages them to do so and if they type P\u00e9cs on the international wheelmap.org<\/a> they will be welcomed by many barrier-free restaurants\/caf\u00e9s that we have evaluated.<\/p>\n A barrier free society is not only advantageous to the disabled<\/em>; young mothers with prams, the elderly, and those with temporary injuries also benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n Let’s make P\u00e9cs barrier free!<\/span><\/p>\n Expanding the scope of activities of the project is made possible by the continued support of Academy for the Development of Philanthrophy in Poland funded by the American C.S. Mott foundation. Owing to their support P\u00e9cs K\u00f6z\u00f6ss\u00e9gi Alap\u00edtv\u00e1ny is able to involve other organizations in their project entitled\u00a0‘P\u00e9cs City for wheelchair users \u2013 Promoting Inclusion through both Improved Wheelchair Accessibility and Community building activities’<\/i>\u00a0. Their new partners, Speck\u00f3 Escape Room and Social Inclusion Studies, University of P\u00e9cs, are participating in the project between 1. January – 30. June 2019.<\/p>\n Interim report on the progress of the project (April 2019) As part of our project we have visited more than 30 restaurants, caf\u00e9s, hotels, shops and public institutions. Most of these have proven to be either fully or partially barrier-free, unfortunately with the exception of most toilets.<\/p>\n Some of the establishments are still awaiting final assessment, either because we need one last visit to check if the adjustments resulted in a fully barrier-free environment or because we are waiting for an official response (from banks, post offices, McDonald’s restaurants, etc.).<\/p>\n We find the general attitude of people very positive, we are mostly welcomed and business owners are happy to help. Before giving the sticker to an establishment, we evaluate not only the design of the building but also the attitude of the management and staff.\u00a0 It is also a “barrier-free conditions” for us.<\/p>\n We post pictures of and a detailed report on every single business we visit on our Facebook site (People First HU) and our Instagram account (peoplefirstpecs). On the home page of our website we included a link to P\u00e9cs on\u00a0wheelmap.org<\/a>,\u00a0a worldwide map, visited mostly by European wheelchair users, where all wheelchair accessible places we evaluated\u00a0 and photo documented can be found. We have and will continue to make all barrier-free establishments of P\u00e9cs visible on the international website. This is an important step in attracting tourist to, as well as helping them get around P\u00e9cs.<\/p>\n 22.11.2018 – 31.08.2019. 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