The disabled
families and friends of the disabled. The facilities needed are quite cheap to design and build from the beginning but extremely troublesome and expensive to install later.
As one whose mother had Multiple Sclerosis, brother had rheumatoid arthritis and husband had Motor Neurone Disease, I have done my fair share of wheel-chair pushing in my life-time and have been delighted how there has been a total revolution in my life-time in the UK in facilities for the disabled. It has gone from being a shameful topic that many did not like to discuss or admit was a factor in their own family, to a topic that
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Many have money to spend and do (or have done) jobs and pay (or have paid) taxes - so why shouldn't they enjoy public life?
Bangladesh has a long way to go and will continue to proceed very slowly unless people in all sectors of society do a great deal more 'pushing'! Architects and planners have both to push and be pushed! Don't wait until there is a disabled person in your own family and, suddenly, your eyes are opened and you become a campaigner for facilities for the
one you love. Moreover, one day, you too may need them......Well, how would you get to your favourite shopping centre with an injured hip?