Kuala Lumpur is not a friendly city for the physically challenged people, as many buildings and public transportation do not allow them to move freely in their wheelchair.
Most of the public transportation such as the bus services, LRT, Monorail, Commuter and ERL are only accessible if they have someone to help them out.
The number of physically challenged individuals out in shopping complexes, theater halls, national library, or any other public place are very small.
Most buildings and public transportation do not have an alternative pathway apart from the stairs in order for them to fully utilize the facilities.
They have no choice but to stay at home as they cannot travel outside their house on their own without any assistant.
"There is no point coming out of the house, as there is not many place that are accessible for us in the wheelchair," said Encik Ismail sho was wheelchair bounded since childhood.
Every state of the art building fully equipped with advanced technological equipments that is being build should always gives enough considerations to this community.
However, currently only limited access was given to them including the restrooms build for the physically challenged people in public places, which are not enough.
Every Malaysian from all walks of life must be able to enjoy all the public places and facilities by the government
Tim@2004
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This article was written as an exercise in the CIJ Journalism Skills Training 25-26Sept04. I used to be a volunteer for CIJ in 2004. This one-and-a-half-day course was designed (1) to train CIJ volunteers who are interested in contributing to their media and radio projects and also (2) to encourage people to write about their community and issues affecting them.
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