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HELPING PWDS A group of architects has been pushing for a stricter implementation of the accessibility law to World qualifiers dream
make all buildings in the country accessible to persons with disabilities (PWDs). –Niño Jesus Orbeta come true for Thirdy
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ANGELES CITY—Architect Frank Sarmiento was asked on Saturday to spend NEWSINFO
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an hour roaming around the classrooms of Holy Angel University here on a
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He was one of four people who was asked to experience mobility around
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the campus on a wheelchair. Three others went around the same ‘prisoners of war’ in
Agusan del Sur
classrooms with blindfolds for an hour to simulate the experience of
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sightless people.
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Architect Kenneth Descazo was strapped with two bags to simulate the
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UAP has been pushing for the strict enforcement of these laws through
Abordo’s other group, Architects for Accessibility, which led the seminar.
Abordo said 1.6 million of 106.51 million Filipinos (1.57 percent) have some
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forms of physical disability and who occasionally struggle to gain access to
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Many buildings are required to have proper signs leading to ramps
equipped with handrails, signs or devices that use Braille for the blind, or
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PWD-friendly in 2007. Our laws were around when [the late President 21 Savage ‘wasn’t
Ferdinand] Marcos governed the country but we had not made any hiding’ being British,
feared deportation
headway after 30 years,” said architect Felizardo Cipriano, who represented
the country in the 2017 Accessibility and Universal Design Convention in
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“But the problem is no matter how many architects design PWD facilities
for building projects, the final plans are still under the discretion of the
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building operators,” he said. —MARIA ADELAIDA CALAYAG
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