The Wheelchair Challenge
This would include having your legs loosely tied together so that you are reminded that you cannot walk.
You spend a whole day in a wheelchair and continue to do the everyday things that you would do on a weekday.
While you do the challenge please record the events, with photos and videos, share them to social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
It will be excellent to see the results of the challenge and the conclusions that are reached at the end of it.
It Has To Be Any Usual Week Day
This includes travelling to work with the wheelchair, by bus, train or car.
Wheelchair users cannot walk at all.
Wheelchair users must use disabled toilets and “wide” parking bays.
Wheelchair For A Day
We all see wheelchairs.
We all see wheelchairs but do we see the people who use and rely on them every day?
Wheelchair users come in all shapes and forms each using a wheelchair for different reason.
Injuries
Disabilities
Old Age
Para Olympians
We have all seen or heard about our gold medal winning para Olympians.
But no one sees the struggles that wheelchair users have to overcome in real life, the hoops that we have to jump through, the hurdles that we overcome and the steps we have to take.
Wheelchair For A Day
The idea of WHEELCHAIR FOR A DAY is to make people more aware of the problems and struggles that people in wheelchairs have to endure on a daily basis.
Sitting down all day is some people’s idea of an easy life, but how will able bodied people cope if they were confined to a wheelchair all day.
Where can I get a wheelchair?
In an ideal world you would be able to have easy access to a wheelchair via your work place or your place of education.
If this is not an option you will have to search the internet for a business that hires wheelchairs.
Enjoy The Daily Challenges Of
- Narrow doors.
- Narrow isles.
- Steps “5 6 7 8 “
- No drop kerbs.
- Fighting the camber on footpaths.
- The indignity of having to ask for help to do simple things.
- Outward opening doors
Hospitals are not wheelchair friendly; usually there are no places to “park” in the waiting areas. The toilets on the wards are not always the easiest to use.
Architects and planning officials need to spend time in a wheelchair so that they can understand what needs to change.
Every public or private business, schools and colleges should have a wheelchair onsite.
Wheelchair days should be compulsory as health and safety, mindfulness, diversity, enablement awareness courses.
WHEELCHAIR FOR A DAY
CHARITY
Use the experience as a fund raiser and get sponsored to raise funds for a charity or good cause.
CHOOSE YOUR WHEELCHAIR
The wheelchair experience
Different wheelchairs present different challenges.
Self propelled
Motorised
Assistant driven/pushed
Transporting the wheelchair throws up more problems
Another challenge that most people would never consider.