Hūtia te rito o te harakeke, kei hea te kōmako e ko?
Kī mai ki au, He aha te mea nui?
Māku e kī atu. He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
Take the heart from the flax bush and where would the bellbird sing?
Ask what is the greatest thing?
I will tell you. It is people, people, people.
People are everyone – children, babies, adults, teenagers, disabled people and children and D/deaf people and children as one whole universal people.
What people who are deaf with a disability or multi disabilities, people with mental illness, elderly persons?
This group of people/children with multi disabilities, along with D/deaf are human like us.
Mm, what I am trying to work out by putting a piece of advice or details about us to you – readers? Do you realise there are more than 1 billion disabled people in the world? This result came from the WHO (World Health Organisation), and yes, it is an updated result. Perhaps you did not see anyone with disability/disabilities in your area, street, park even anywhere you did not see anyone with disability/disabilities in your area, street, park even anywhere you work in the building.
If you do not know much about us – disabled people, even D/deaf people well, or a little bit of understanding-you may have a family member who has a disability.
Please consider learning from us; otherwise, you will be fantastic to see or realise we do have the skill, ability to do in a different way of communicating, activity and the ability to understand you.
Yes, I know that people are often afraid, unsure how to communicate, or unsure how to get involved with us. But, the worst of all, we disabled people, D/deaf people and D/deaf people with disabilities, are often left out or forgot that we are there in the same room without chatting or include us in your meeting.
In New Zealand, we – disabled people, D/deaf people and deaf with other disabilities people facing many house crisis, shortage of financial income, bleak of finding a job and no friendly accessible everywhere. We are not the only human facing huge problems; everyone else looking for a place with a roof over the head faces a shortage of houses. We – disabled people, are at the bottom of the list than anyone else able to gain a home with a roof, find a job, or earn a little income for their children.
Stop thinking of the planning design, infrastructure first and start listening to us on what we need with a friendly, accessible environment and homes with a roof over our head. I could challenge high profile players like property developers, property investors, architects, Maori Trustees of the Boards, Rental management Brokers/investments, and other people like the MPs, Council Staff. A tool called ‘Universal Design” logged and implemented into the Building Act Law in Ireland. The device called the “Rethinking” project because they may not know about us, instead of bickering over the high-cost infrastructure to install in the ground, even inside the house. The rethinking tool is ideal for making everyone change their attitudes, learning about us, their behaviours, and perhaps overall, challenge implementing the law through the Government. Check out this website http://universaldesign.ie.
We are human like you, and we have the gift of wisdom, leadership, teaching and experience from birth/after accidents to pass on to the next generation as we learnt from the previous generations.
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