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 Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
