Hello friends
I like to raise one more thing to this topic which I think is missing so
far
from our discussion that mobility is greatly dependent on the conditions
where we live in . I am 100% visually challenged and I have to travel
around
40 km daily from barnala where I live to sangrur where I work and from
bus
stand I have to walk aroung 1km to reach my office . I have no formal
training in mobility and to great extent I don't know how to use cane but
the point I trying to make is delhi or Mumbai are 100 times more bigger
cities than barnala or sangrur and in small cities the condition of roads
is
very ugly thereare many pits in the road and other than this the roads
are
not smooth and the cane stucks sometimes and if u r going in a motion
than u
most probably in front of cane and it is not a desirable situation when I
was in Chandigarh which is a bigger city than barnala or sangrur where
the
traffic is more compared to barnala or sangrur I won't face such kind of
problems as the roads are more smoother and one more thing that I walk
through the main bazazar and the main road even in these places the
situation is not good when I started to go in the office for the first
month
or so I was not able to locate the location of the pits or holes but now
I
am able to find those by my cane as I have come to know about location of
these holes and pits the cane is very useful even if u don't know how to
use
this as it lets the other people know that u have some kind of problem
aand
they start to travel more carefully when they are near u regarding taking
help from people I never shy away from this when ever I think it
necessary
there are all kind of people in this world some of them are ready to help
us
and they r enough for me to walk around where ever I want to go . Having
confidence in your's ability is must and never take risk and never shy
away
from taking help of others when ever u r in need if one does not offer u
help and don't hesitate asking other . to have a sighted escort is a
desirable situation but some of us are not able to afford it and self
independence is also desirable regarding struggling in some places it
happens and you have to accept it and you have to live with it it does
not
matter what any one else is thinking what matters is that I am able to
feed
my family on my own .
-----Original Message-----
From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Jean Parker
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:11 AM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: [AI] tips to manage without escort?
vamshi:
This is a great story and is exactly what is meant by independent
mobility.
It does not mean going everywhere by yourself.
Jean
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