How much is accessible Arad for people with disabilities?

In Arad the common way of travelling is tram. There are many trams that connect different places of this city.
Is nice travel with tram: you are surrounded by local people and you have a lot of time for see them... When your tram is travelling slowly trough the city you can notice different people: children, young people... Old people. Someone travel alone, someone with friends or someone spend his time reading.

But... People with disabilities? How they can move alone around the city? 

This week some of us tried to toke a look around for understand how much Arad is accessible... and.. we took some pictures:

The first impression is that is totally impossible for them get into the trams... Most of them are very very old, and when you want enter into you have to taking the stairs.

And when you are inside?
Some of this old trams have some empty space 

But most of them have a very little empty space inside:

 This is the actually situation in Arad: many places connected by trams, a lot of people that can use them... but not all of population is included: why?

La multi ani!

After one month, we come back with more news about our project. We had some time for relaxing but now it’s the last period, a period where we have a lot of ideas to apply, new activities (for example, a theatre or a flash-move!) and new centres. So, be patient and you’ll discovery more about Temerarii and its people in the next few months.

To start January, we decided to do some funny games in Creative and Tabacovici. We realized that they love the game Memory, you know, this card game where you need to find two cards with the same picture. So, we played with them during almost one hour because they didn’t want to stop and we discovered that women in Creative always win this game.

But also we had some other games. As we were not too many people, we decided to use some nice puzzles where they could think about the best way to do it.  Always without forget to express ourselves through drawings. In two hours, we had some nice portraits of each other, some Christmas decoration, and animals. 

And, as a reward of all this games, they had lunch to recover energy! 

Happy Christmas at CRRCD!!!

Hallo everyone!!! 

Today, in CRRCD, we tried to bring our smiles and our happiness to children with some simple presents and our Christmas costumes!

The children were very happy to see us and they spent a good time with us!!! 

We played with them while Santa Claus took little children in her arms. Then one of them said poetry and all together sang some songs..

It was great to see their joy and their thanks. 

The children looked at us with much surprise and curiosity; they took the balloons that we prepared for them and some of our hats!!! 

Some minutes before to go away from CRRCD we made some pictures together and said goodbye to children. It was a little difficult because they were very happy and they would have wanted to continue playing with us! 

We hope we have given them, with our activities, so much joy!!!

Merry Christmas from Creativ

Hello everyone!!

This morning in Creativ Center we spent a very good time with our friends and their relatives!
We sang together some Christmas Carols and then we could hear a chorus... with violin!

After the Carols a special guest gave presents for everyone....

and at the end a sweet surprise!

Spot - Children Sport and Disabilities

Hello everyone!

We want to share with you this beautiful spot of the Paralimpic Foundation of Canada.

For a “grown-up” communicate a message - especially when dealing with difficult issues - is not always so spontaneous as it seems. For children instead is very spontaneous and simple! We have a lot of things to learn from them: this is our goal,Temerarii.

Spot - Children Sport and Disabilities:

This is sport.

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First activities of November

Hello! It’s been a long time since we don’t write. We are now in the second term of the project and new people have arrived to work in Temerarii. Today, we started the term visiting the centre Creative where some old people live, quite challenging. Some days ago, we prepared some simple activities that were focused in know each other better, especially our names. At the beginning, we thought that they were going to be shy because we were new in this center, but we were wrong. They participated actively in all the activities we proposed and we had fun together!

Among the activities, we carried out some funny games that were easy for them to do. As you can see in the picture, they started writing their names in some papers; they took the label with the name and, with a ball, they threw it to another person telling his or her name. Later, we took out the papers to see if all of us remembered the name of the players without read it.

Some minutes before finish in Creative, we rehearsed some Christmas songs in Romanian and English. It was quite difficult to sing in Romanian because we still don’t understand the language and it was the first time that we listened these songs but it was really interesting and soon we were doing the best of us.

Despite the difference of culture, language and age, we had a really good time with them. With time, or relationship will improve together with our understanding.

The dance of the week