Life in France as a disabled person is, at least, difficult.
Access, services, employment and independence are all things that are taken for granted in everyday life but for the disabled they are almost exclusively denied.
Banks that have no disabled access, lack of disabled parking spaces, few shopping trolleys that attach to wheelchairs, restricted checkouts in supermarkets and the lack of dropped kerbs are just a few obstacles that make life for the disabled frustrating and humiliating.
Eric Taffoureau-Millet has first hand experience of the problems disabled people face, being the victim of a cycling accident at the age of 17 which left him in a coma. Two further accidents compounded the problems he faced. As a previous top class cyclist he knew that he had to move on and his change of direction empowered him to take up the fight.
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Life in France as a disabled person is, at least, difficult.
Access, services, employment and independence are all things that are taken for granted in everyday life but for the disabled they are almost exclusively denied.
Banks that have no disabled access, lack of disabled parking spaces, few shopping trolleys that attach to wheelchairs, restricted checkouts in supermarkets and the lack of dropped kerbs are just a few obstacles that make life for the disabled frustrating and humiliating.
Eric Taffoureau-Millet has first hand experience of the problems disabled people face, being the victim of a cycling accident at the age of 17 which left him in a coma. Two further accidents compounded the problems he faced. As a previous top class cyclist he knew that he had to move on and his change of direction empowered him to take up the fight.
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Your first Christmas in France? Shopping for presents, writing cards to neighbours or just want to get your head round the essential Christmas vocabulary?
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Your first Christmas in France? Shopping for presents, writing cards to neighbours or just want to get your head round the essential Christmas vocabulary?
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The leaders at the MJC (Maison des Jeunes de la Culture) at Venarey les Laumes, Cote d'Or devise a different theme to entertain the children leading up to Christmas.
This year they have co-opted the help of British residents in the vicinity to devise a day of fun and games on December 20.
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The leaders at the MJC (Maison des Jeunes de la Culture) at Venarey les Laumes, Cote d'Or devise a different theme to entertain the children leading up to Christmas.
This year they have co-opted the help of British residents in the vicinity to devise a day of fun and games on December 20.
More on "An English Christmas for French children"
