INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE DISABLED
Mrs Chitra, Health Communicator, Nishta Team
Today Dec 3, is the International Day of
the Disabled. The theme this year is : Empowering persons with disabilities and
ensuring inclusiveness and equality.
There are scores of programs, schemes
etc. towards this goal but then
why haven’t we still not been able to empower the disabled adequately?
Empowerment has a deeper connotation than enabling in the context of the
disabled. There needs to be a change in the mindset of the society at large as
well as the disabled themselves.
Serving the underprivileged should be more
than a mere lip service. Supporting a disabled person adequately means
designing our plans be it for a party or work or an event considering the
challenged in our plans. Given the rate of disabilities that we see in our
society, we need to be more sensitive about this issue. In the race to be the
best we even forget our own self, but it is time to reflect on issues of social
concern with a genuity.
There are numerous stories of heroes with
disabilities and one common streak in them is their will to get out of their
self-pity. Heroes are inspiring and the most inspiring aspects of the heroes
with disability is their will to win over their weaknesses and barriers.
Tamilnadu has inspiring stories of Shri.H.Ramakrishnan,
Ms.Preethi Srinivasan,Shri Ramakrishnan, Shri.Sankarraman and many more. Let us
take a leaf out of their notes. In the
state of Jallikattu revolution and Gaja relief work this should not be a problem.
The society including the disabled should make a move. Let’s do it.
A
thought is the seed that transforms into a tree called action, so let us think
about this today and work with a goal to empower the disabled and ensure
inclusiveness and equality in the society
