Decent life for Disabled Persons

Invataxi Services have been organized already in 20 cities of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Invataxi render free transport services to disabled people, who have serious problems with musculoskeletal system. For this purpose, special transport in the amount of 60 cars of Volkswagen were purchased by Saby Foundation and were donated to the societies of disabled people. During 5 years of the realization of ‘Decent Life for Disabled People’ Project over than 300, 000 transportations have been carried out! From year to year this quantity is growing and a growing number of disabled people are involved to the active life of society.

The opportunity of movement allows to Live!

This year the Decent Life for Disabled People Project celebrates its 5 year anniversary. The system of free transport services for people of 1 and 2 disability groups with musculoskeletal problems works well and gives benefit to society. The lists of categories of the citizens, who can use Invataxi services, are established in city departments of employment and social programs. On the basis of social institutions, where special car fleets are located, dispatching services work and accept requests for transportations. Disabled people can go for study and work, visit medical institutions, cultural and sport events.

The indicator of the wide development of Invataxi is Internet. You can type in any searching web site this word and see the hundreds of references to the articles about realization of this project, work of transport services and fates of passengers. More than 100,000 of transportations were fulfilled during 2012.

From this year the quantity of users will increase at least to 20%, as Saby Charitable Foundation has already purchased 10 specialized cars of Volkswagen mark. The period of their production and re-equipping in Germany and delivery to Almaty will take about 6 months and in summer we will receive new cars ready for granting to the societies of disabled people in regions of Kazakhstan.

As a result, within the framework of the Decent Life for Disabled People Project, 62 units of cars were purchased for transportation of wheelchair persons from 20 cities of Kazakhstan.

Today, the meeting of the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan Abdenov S.S. with the leaders of social organizations of physically challenged people, foundations and state structures was held in Almaty. At round table the issues, which require the solution in the sphere of integration and social adaptation of physically challenged people into modern society, were raised.

The issue of transport availability was discussed with a special meaning, firstly, for the needs of difficult movable people, physically challenged people who use wheelchairs.

Aselle Tasmagambetova, President of the Foundation, presented the report about Saby Charitable Foundation activity within the framework of “Decent Life for Disabled People” Project about the development program of “Invataxi” social system.

The whole text of the report you can read here. [attachment=5]

Links by theme:
Ministry of Labour and Social Protection
Video Sharing bnews.kz
Website of the Prime Minister
Kazakhstan Pravda newspaper
Internet portal inform.kz
Khabar TV channel
Legal portal Zakon.kz

When you are waiting for something, time goes so slowly. For a wheelchair-bound invalid, dreaming, perhaps, for the first time after many years of imprisonment in his/her own home, to leave his/her home and to make a trip round the city, to give a look at new buildings of already hardly familiar streets or to slightly touch withered but alive leaves, such expectation will become quite intolerable.

It takes long half a year from the date of signing of Invataxi Service Development Agreement in a populated locality till the receiving of cars granted by Saby Charitable Foundation. It will take precisely such period of time to purchase and re-equip cars at the plant in Germany where special hydraulic lifts are installed which release a person in a wheelchair, getting into the car, from the dangerous necessity of changing a seat.

Six months from the moment two Volkswagen Caddy cars were purchased for Almaty Society of Disabled People, at last passed. The cars passed customs clearance, formalities at the State Automobile Inspection and enlarged Kazakhstan specialized car fleet for disabled people established by our Foundation in 2008. Now there are already 52 invataxies functioning in 16 cities of the country.

This long-awaited event was realized thanks to the support of KazRosGas LLP which by its non-indifference and readiness to render assistance to people in need has repeatedly proved its social responsibility. Having entrusted funding amounts to Saby Charitable Foundation, KazRosGas LLP took part in the Project ‘Decent Life for Disabled People’ and gave many Kazakhstan people who, by a quirk of fate is bound to a wheelchair, the opportunity to feel freedom of movement.

Thank you, KazRosGas!

Another batch of mobile special purpose elevators, which make possible wheelchair people to ascend and descend stairs of buildings and constructions, was delivered to Almaty. These devices enable handicapped persons to comfortably and securely surmount staircases without wearisome relocation from a wheel-chair.

The primary purchase and approbation in 9 cities allowed to estimate positive result of the exploitation of both track laying and wheeled elevators. The new mechanisms will be donated to the societies of handicapped persons on the base of which Invataxi Regional Services operate in the order of received requests.

Soon handicapped people from Taraz, Ekibastus and Kyzylorda will be able to test the equipment. Users from Astana and Shymkent will receive additional units of equipment taking into account a greater number of cars in the special purpose car parks.

The improvement of the work of Invataxi Regional Services’ through equipping them with ladder lifters is realized as part of one of the stages of the Saby Charitable Foundation’s Project named as ‘A Decent Life for Disabled People’.

In the beginning of this year, the Associations of Disabled People of the nine cities of Kazakhstan, the participants of the Project “Decent Life for Disabled People”, have received a present from Saby Charitable Foundation – the portable stair-climbing mechanisms to complete Invataxi transportation services. These units are used for the transportation of wheelchair-bound people, making their lives significantly easier, since they allow, with some effort, to lift up and down a wheelchair-bound person at the stairs in the buildings not equipped with elevators and ramps. This kind of ‘stair rover’ does not require the equipping of stairs with special rails or other auxiliary joints.

Many people with special difficulties in travelling managed for the first time in many years to leave the walls of their houses to visit the health care facilities and social institutions, to meet with friends or just to see the sun.

For the present moment we have an agreement for the supply of the second lot of lifting units from Italy. In mid-summer one stair lift for each association in Taraz, Kyzylorda and Ekibastuz will be delivered to the sponsored Associations of Disabled People, while the associations in Astana and Shymkent, in view of the larger Invataxi fleet of motor cars, will additionally receive one more unit.

Saby Charitable Foundation is hurrying to cheer you with a pleasant news: the Volkswagen purpose-built vehicles have arrived for the Almaty’s societies of disabled persons: Transporter minibus for Eldani Foundation, two Caddy passenger cars for Almaty City Society of Disabled Persons (ACSDP) and Crafter bus for Association of Disabled Children Parents (ADCP).

For Eldani and ADCP these vehicles were necessary more than air. The rehabilitation centers are in operation at these organizations, which assist the children and youth with difficulties in mental and physical development. Here the psychological recovery and adaptation measures are held with children, and previously many of them had to get here by public transport. And now they will be delivered and carried by the special motor vehicle designed to transport the disable people.

In ACSDP two vehicles will be used for the completion of the Invataksi fleet. And two Caddy vehicles are next in turn, which have been already purchased by our Foundation and will be delivered within 5 months, therefore the capabilities of the passenger service increase significantly.

Saby Foundation sincerely thanks all philanthropists for their contribution to the development of the project “A Decent Life for Disabled People” which made the life of particular people a bit easier.

http://thebig.kz/index.php?do=gallery&act=1&cid=53

It became rather traditional to see motor vehicles with blue “dams” used for the purposes of free transport services to wheelchair users on the roads of our City.

But a great number of requests being addressed to the “Invataxi” Dispatcher Service show a significant deficiency in these special vehicles (being acquired for and donated to the Almaty Society of the Disabled) to meet the current needs of disabled people. In this regard, the “Saby” Charitable Foundation decided to enlarge the park fleet of the “Invataxi” Service in Almaty with another two Volkswagen Caddies.

It became possible thanks to our sponsor, LLP “KazRosGas”, which in line with its Policy of Corporate Social Responsibility has allocated the required funds for the purposes of implementing the “Decent Life to Disabled People” Project.

In the first half of the summer the given transport vehicles will be delivered to Almaty and immediately put into operation.

The “Saby” Charitable Foundation highly appreciates and shows its deepest respect to every philanthropist who is ready to give its helping hand to those people in need.

Today we would like to talk about the Kazakhstan and Russian Gas Company “KazRosGaz” specialized in marketing, processing, transportation and sales of Kazakhstani natural gas and gas by-products both on the domestic and foreign market.

“KazRosGaz” has also supported the Saby’s Project “Decent Life to Disabled People” by allocation of funds to purchase two specialized vehicles to be used for transportation of wheelchair users, in order to enlarge the number of transport vehicles covered by Almaty “Invataxi” Service – that is, without no doubt, another important step to make the social adaptation of people with disabilities more comfortable.

LLC “KazRosGas” has been actively involved in implementation of non-commercial projects. At the same time, the main directions of the Company’s charitable and sponsorship activity – to help children from needy families and orphanages, veterans and disabled people. The Company also gives its support to a great number of Sports Federations, Teams and sportsmen. Special attention is given to renovation of both spiritual and national values, development of culture, science and education; promotion of healthy lifestyle. LLC “KazRosGas” also cooperates both with Kazakhstani and Russian Charitable Foundation – that makes it possible to speed up the process of solving existing social problems.

From the bottom of our hearts we would like to thank LLC “KazRosGaz” for its assistance!

Six months ago, after having started the process of accumulation of funds for procurement of lifting equipment for ups and downs of wheelchairs, the “Saby” Charitable Foundation as of 2011-year end has bought 10 sets of crawler-tracked mechanisms manufactured in Italy.

Now the given equipment is donated to “Invataxi” Services (participants of the Social Project “Decent Life to Disabled People”) operating in the following nine cities of the Republic: Almaty, Astana, Pavlodar, Semey, Shymkent, Kokshetau, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Aktobe, Kostanay .

There is no doubt this rehabilitation equipment will improve the quality of life of locomotor people because it is not a secret that their life is very difficult living in the modern city, and each the staircase shaft is like climbing Everest for them. It is always very difficult to run through the thresholds, curbs and stairs in multistorey apartment and public buildings which are not equipped with the lifts and wheelchair ramps.

Every wheelchair user when calling the “Invataxi” Service can be sure that he or she will be transported to the right place mainly because of the lifting equipment that makes it easy to break any barriers existing nowadays.

And we still continue to accumulate funds, and we hope that it will be very soon when the other Project participants may use their “up and down mechanisms.”