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“Help Actually" seek accessibility for visually impaired persons

Successfully supported by more than 400 signatures from the public.


There are now more than 120,000 visually impaired people in Hong Kong, including public housing tenants and others who could use the shopping malls under their jurisdiction. The Housing Authority, which had almost adopted $100 million in 2005 to set up some visually impaired assistance facilities in all public housing estates in Hong Kong. But the works did not include the collection and exchange shopping malls in the various housing estates, and the facilities for the visually impaired in the shopping malls under the Administration of Foreign Exchange are still seriously inadequate and pose a number of obstacles to the visually impaired. It even poses a potential risk to their personal safety. Therefore, the "Friends of Accidents" together with the Caring for Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Association of the Blind people have launched a signature campaign to actively promote the construction of additional diversion facilities for the visually impaired in their shopping malls, including lead paths and prompting noises, to support "accessible channels" to reduce and avoid accidents.


“Help Actually” Signature Campaign was launched on Saturday, 18 April 2009. The fake General Ausund's nearby Sunde Mall was carried out, obtained 400 Several enthusiastic citizens signed their support. After collecting the signatures, the "Help Actually" more directly submitted a petition to the representatives of the Shande Shopping Mall under the Ministry of Foreign Exchange, urging the group to fulfill its corporate social responsibility and provide convenient and safe shopping mall environment and services to all citizens. This includes the visually impaired, on an equal basis, to jointly build a harmonious and integrated society. We will also write to the Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Mr. Dunn, to look forward to the opportunity to follow up on this matter and to promote the speedy improvement of the facilities.


Time : 2009-04-18