AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — Many people with disabilities will tell you it’s harder for them to get around. The Sister-Bear Foundation wants to change that with Accessible Amarillo.
They want to educate people. One way is with videos on things we may not think about.
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“That way people can understand and see first hand what it looks like when parking creates a block accessibility to someone’s vehicle or for them to get their wheelchair or ramp outside the vehicle and the other part of that is other things, just, you know, one of the big things that our founders, daughter Kathryn, who’s part of our organization, realized, is it’s the things like when there’s a full bathroom, and it’s when there is an empty bathroom and there are a lot of empty stalls, but someone opts to use the handicap accessible stall because it’s bigger, and someone who’s sitting there in a wheelchair waiting to use the restroom has to wait for somebody to get out of that stall. And so it’s little things that impact somebody because they don’t have the option to use a smaller stall, and it’s things that we probably don’t even think about if it doesn’t impact us or our family, said Ruth Brown, Sister-Bear Foundation director.
Brown says they want to take firsthand stories from people like Kathryn Granger straight to the City of Amarillo…