"Un aveugle, une canne" : Un programme lancé au Sénégal et dans la diaspora par un mouvement de non-voyants
Providing every blind person with a cane, an essential tool for their safety and mobility, is the program that the national movement Sunu Yene, founded in Thiès by blind people, plans to launch in Senegal and among the diaspora.
During a press briefing held this weekend, as part of National Disability Week, members of the movement asked state authorities to take the remaining 47 implementing decrees out of the 50 articles, for the effective implementation of the social orientation law which would resolve a good part of the difficulties of disabled people.
Moussa Boury Diouf, a blind literature professor, points out that the cane serves several functions for blind people: safety, geolocation, mobility, and orientation. It is also a means of visual communication. "When a blind person holds their cane vertically, it means they need to cross the road. It indicates they are on a pedestrian crossing and that drivers must yield. If they hold it horizontally, they are signaling to passersby that they are having difficulties," the professor explains.
Birama Sarr, president of Sunu Yene, announces the imminent launch of a fundraising campaign in Senegal and the diaspora to obtain as many canes as possible to distribute to the blind and support those in need.
Sunu Yene has already distributed 50 walking sticks, with the goal of reaching 200 in the short term and, ultimately, at least 1,000. He plans to post a link to the "One Blind Person, One Walking Stick" fundraising campaign in the coming days.
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Dites non voyant à la place de aveugle. L'expression aveugle est péjorative et lourde de sens
Exactement. On peut avoir des yeux tout en étant aveugle. Regardez a côté de vous toutes ces personnes qui suivent le gourou. Ils sont tous aveugles. Alors que les non voyants sont guidés par leur clairvoyance.
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