July 2010

On 11th July, the first excursion day-off routes started around city places of interest for those persons, who undergo special difficulties in moving, including wheelchair users, many of whom found themselves outdoors for the first time during many years, and could fully feel pace of life of the present- day megapolis. The students and teachers of the KIMEP became the organizers of the campaign.

A social adaptation of disabled persons is the primary task under the Project of our Foundation «Decent Life for Disabled Persons», under which we have been working over two years. It is specially developed to rehabilitate and integrate into the social medium disabled persons. Thus, when an initiative team of the youth from the KIMEP made a request for the organization of a tourist route for disabled persons, we readily supported it.

Saby Foundation saw the way to give two “Invataxi” vehicles with drivers and necessary fuels and lubricants for the period of the campaign.

The ability to move allows disabled persons to take an active part in the life of the society. And it is pleasant in particular that this problem worries the youth – the future of our country.

The social associations of disabled persons in the towns of Аktobe, Semey and Pavlodar have received two vehlicles each: Volkswagen Caddy and Volkswagen Transporter equipped with special hoisting devices for disabled persons carriages and the fastening thereof inside a vehicle.

In the said towns, Services «Invataxi» will be arranged for to provide free transport services to disabled persons. The municipal authorities will assume a further financing of the said transport services.

The extension of a scope of «Invataxi» activities in regions is the next step of our Foundation in its operation under the Project «Decent Life for Disabled Persons».

Photos of the Service “Invataxi” in Semey

Photos of the Servise “Invataxi” in Pavlodar

Photos of the Service “Invataxi” in Aktobe

The keynote of the arrangement is to give real assistance to the most defenseless sectors of the population in Astana. For today, there are over four hundred persons in the northern capital, to whom the services of «Invataxi» are the only opportunity to exercise their constitutional rights to the freedom of movement.

The same as in another eight towns, which received the said special-purpose motor vehicles from Saby Foundation, and where programs on the social rehabilitation of disabled persons are being currently implemented, four vehicles donated to the Kazakhstan Confederation of Disabled Persons yesterday, will be operated so as to render free transport services to those, who undergo special difficulties in moving, first of all, to wheelchair users.

The Project «Decent Life for Disabled Persons», under which our Foundation is operating to develop services of «Invataxi» around Kazakhstan, has taken another very important and substantial step.

References on the suibject:

Kazinform

Range.kz

Official Site of Astana City

“Evening Astana”

TDK42.kz

“Express-K”

“Invataxi” Presentation Photos

Due to the support of the sponsors taking an active part in the implementation of the Project «Decent Life for Disabled Persons», one of the tasks of which is to provide all regions of Kazakhstan with motor vehicles to convey disabled persons, now it is possible to continue the project by purchasing another 6 units of the special-purpose motor transport.

In five months, and just so much time is needed to manufacture, re-equip and deliver motor vehicles from Germany to Almaty, the «social taxi» will be transferred to social organizations of disabled persons in another three towns of Kazakhstan.