Fadi Al-Asa-Bethlehem
The life of a Palestinian young woman differed after the provision of a vehicle carrying her in a wheelchair to go wherever she wants, and no longer need permanent facilities with her to help her to move, after the owner of a public vehicle office created a delivery service for people with disabilities.
Hayat can go to work from her hometown of Za'tara, east of Bethlehem, south of the occupied West Bank, to various areas inside and outside the governorate, as well as to carry out other community activities alone.
| Khaled Dhuib blue with three children with motor disabilities, he opened an office for public vehicles serving the disabled (Al Jazeera) |
Challenge .. Three sons blocking mobility
Khaled Dhuib, who was working as a driver on a public vehicle at the beginning of his work, and after he had drowned with three children with motor disabilities, he wanted to challenge this. To the vehicle chair.
Dhuib developed his vehicle to accommodate a device that descends to the ground and holds a wheelchair, lifting it to enter the vehicle and the person with disabilities, without the need to move from his chair.
The idea seems simple, but it needs many technical details and provides engine parts that carry the chair and install it in the vehicle, as well as the high financial cost of these parts. But the most important for him is to move his children first from their home to their places of work and study, and also to be a public vehicle belonging to his office to transport people with disabilities.
| Khaled Dhuwaib comes down the machine for lifting the wheelchair (Al Jazeera) |
Maintain privacy
Dhuib tells Al Jazeera Net that young people are easy to carry and lift, and can ask for help from anyone on the street to transport them in a public vehicle, but girls can not be transported in the same way to maintain their privacy.
There are people who can only be transported in a wheelchair due to orthopedic diseases, and are prevented from moving their chairs, and there are people with large weights for certain pathological reasons, so the idea preserves the privacy of these, especially if transferred from one province to another.
Although it is a public vehicle, the cost of transporting them is relatively high. Its office is located in the east of Bethlehem. It takes about 20 minutes to reach the center of the city. It is also the only one in the entire West Bank. If he would move him to a place close to his residence.
| The life of Dhuib inside the private vehicle while transporting to its place of work (Al-Jazeera) |
Complex formal procedures
Dhuib complains about the procedures of the Palestinian Ministry of Transport, because it requires mechanical procedures that he considers complicated, and he needs many paperwork to get approval to install a new tool or move the lifting device to another vehicle, as well as its high cost.
This forced him to move the engine lifting chairs to a private vehicle (white color) in order to be able to license a new public vehicle in yellow authorized by the Palestinian Ministry of Transport and Communications.
| Innocence of the daughter of the owner of the office and her work to receive communications and arrange appointments for the transfer of people with disabilities (Al Jazeera) |
Encourage life
Bara'a Dhuib, the eldest daughter of the owner of the Public Vehicle Office, named after her, encourages the girls to call her to ask for the vehicle to pick them up. She herself finished her university studies in Bethlehem, and now works in her father's office, in a wheelchair.
The idea of a vehicle means for people with different disabilities to coexist with their community and access activities and interact with each other, which keeps a person feeling that he has a goal in life.
It turned out that he could then reach him by challenging all the disabilities that he faced, the most important of which is the issue of using a public vehicle that makes him feel independent in making and implementing his decisions. .