‘Cebu City Not Pwd-Friendly’

[Travis]

how could it ever be be PWD friendly when it is not even walking friendly to non handicapped people :lol:you know with the open holes a whole person could get lost in :ohttp://cdn.ph/news_details.php?id=10358Despite its reputation as a tourism destination and its cultural heritage advocacy, Cebu City ranks low in terms of caring for persons with disabilities (PWDs).“Cebu City is the best place to stay but it's not friendly to PWDs,” said Leonilo Umayan, head of the Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO) in Cebu City.He said only 60 percent of the city's 80 barangays complied with the social fund requirement of the General Appropriations Act that mandates the allocation of 1 percent of their Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) as social fund for PWDs.Umayan said Cebu-based companies also refuse to employ PWDs even after they graduate college. He said only the management of the Mabolo Printing Press was generous in employing 27 deaf-mutes as calendar binders.“Their human resources personnel studied sign language so they can understand the deaf-mute employees,” said Virginia Piccio, a social worker of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas.City Hall also employs 32 PWDs, of which seven were given regular status while 25 are casuals. Umayan said lack of financial support hampered the office from organizing a program to celebrate PWD Month.In contrast, Piccio said in Bohol province, a college offers 50 percent discount for tuition to its PWD students. “In Cebu City, nothing,” she lamented. Piccio said 5,124 are registered as PWDs while 900 others, including those who are bedridden and nonvoters whose registrations are still being processed. Piccio said PDAO earlier registered 5,289 persons with disabilities.Cebu City allocates P16.8 million for PWDs of which P12 million is spent for P2,000 in cash assistance. The remaining P4.8 million is spent for PDAO operations. /By Doris C. Bongcac, Chief of Reporters

[Dave Hounddriver]

Its like everything else. The city is friendly to PWD with money. I know one wheelchair bound expat who has 3 female therapists who go everywhere with him. They even carry his huge body, in the wheelchair, up flights of stairs. He is treated royally here. But he has money.