2023-04-24 01:38:00
Aged 77 today, Yolande Caumont has been paraplegic since the age of 22, following a traumatic accident. She is also part of the APF France Handicap association, which celebrates its 90th anniversary this April. Reduced mobility concerns approximately 3.5 million peopleof which 650,000 are in wheelchairs.
Yolande has had no choice but to use a wheelchair since she was in her twenties. “When I was in college, I had to take the dumbwaiter for books“, she recalls. Today, she recognizes that her mobility has improved significantly in the city, but many difficulties remain. “There is still a lot of work to be done in the neighborhoodss, concedes Yolande. If people let a hedge grow that encroaches on the sidewalk, it only takes 4 or 5 centimeters for us to be blocked.“
Many stores remain poorly adapted
Even if the city center of Amiens is generally accessible, the septuagenarian deplores more problems in the shops, even regressions. “In supermarkets, you can no longer take the decoder when you pay by credit card. It is fixed, whereas a few years ago it was detachable.“
Yolande also mentions stores that have come up to standard, and offer a retractable ramp for people in wheelchairs. An unsatisfactory device according to her because it requires the intervention of a third party: “We are not going to mobilize someone if we just want to see and come out. So we’re not going home.“
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